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The Italian General's Pizza Parlour is a small restaurant catering to patrons with a taste for European pizza. One of its specialties is Italian Prize pizza. The manager must forecast weekly demand for these special pizzas so that he can order pizza shells weekly. Recently, the demand has been as follows: (Please see the attachment for charts and further details.)

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