Sophie Black works as a computer programmer for a software company. Her boss, Mike Jones, is responsible for developing a new software game Nintendo After completion of the project, Mike gives all of the team members a free copy of the game without consent from the company. Sophie is unsure about accepting the game because legally it would be considered

a manufacturer of printed circuit boards uses exponential smoothing with trend to forecast monthly demand of its product. at the end of december, the company wishes to forecast sales for january. the estimate of trend through november has been 200 additional boards sold per month. average sales have been around 1000 units per month. the demand for december was 1100 units. the company uses α = 0.20 and β = 0.10. make a forecast including trend for the month of january.

reducing the scale of the market for a new product.