SCENARIO 16-4 the Number of Cases of Merlot Wine Sold

question 109

Short Answer

SCENARIO 16-4 The number of cases of merlot wine sold by a Paso Robles winery in an 8-year period follows.
-Referring to Scenario 16-4, exponential smoothing with a weight or smoothing constant of 0.2 will be used to smooth the wine sales.The value of E2, the smoothed value for 2006 is __________.

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