Operations Management
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ISBN: 9780135173626
Author: HEIZER, Jay, RENDER, Barry, Munson, Chuck
Publisher: Pearson,
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Chapter 4, Problem 28P
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• 4.29 North Dakota Electric Company estimates its demand trend line tin millions of kilowatt hours) to be:
where Q refers to the sequential quarter number and Q = 1 for winter of Year 1. In addition, the multiplicative seasonal factors are as follows:
| QUARTER | FACTOR (INDEX) |
| Winter | .8 |
| Spring | 1.1 |
| Summer | 1.4 |
| Fall | .7 |
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Operations Management
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