A Company Wants to Forecast Demand Using the Weighted Moving

question 39

Multiple Choice

A company wants to forecast demand using the weighted moving average. If the company uses three prior yearly sales values , and we want to weight year 2014 at 30%, year 2015 at 30% and year 2016 at 40%, which of the following is the weighted moving average forecast for year 2018?

• A) 170
• B) 168
• C) 158
• D) 152
• E) 146

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