Operations Management
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MyApp is a small but growing startup that sees demand for several of its apps increase quickly. For the last six months, monthly downloads were 235,000, 290,000, 336,000, 390,000, 435,000, and 498,000. Using a
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015 for both demand smoothing and trend smoothing
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Operations Management
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