John's House of Pancakes Uses a Weighted Moving Average Method

question 133

Multiple Choice

John's House of Pancakes uses a weighted moving average method to forecast pancake sales. It assigns a weight of 5 to the previous month's demand, 3 to demand two months ago, and 1 to demand three months ago. If sales amounted to 3000 pancakes in May, 2200 pancakes in June, and 1000 pancakes in July, what should be the forecast for August?

• A) 2400
• B) 2511
• C) 2067
• D) 3767
• E) 1622

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