Tracked the sales of product

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Jim's department at a local department store has tracked the sales of a product over the last 10 weeks exponential smoothing with an alpha of 0.3. In January, he forecasted $150,000 in sales and achieved $155,000 is sales. Using this same forecasting model, estimate Jim's February sales.

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