The Table Below Shows the Sales for a Plastics Manufacturer

question 41

Short Answer

The table below shows the sales for a plastics manufacturer recorded over the past year. The seasonal indexes for each quarter are also provided. To track the trend for these four quarters, use the indexes to deseasonalize the sales data What is the deseasonalized sales value for quarter 1?

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