A Company Wants to Forecast Demand Using the Weighted Moving

question 27

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 2010 at 30%, year 2011 at 30% and year 2012 at 40%, which of the following is the weighted moving average forecast for year 2013?

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

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