Use the Data Given Below to Answer the Following Question(s)

question 60

Multiple Choice

Use the data given below to answer the following question(s) .
The table below shows the car sales from the year 2002-2007.The forecaster assumes a smoothing constant of 0.8 and uses the exponential smoothing model to determine the forecast for the future.
-From the data given above,the forecast for the year 2005 (in 000s) is ________.

• A)39.60 units
• B)40.72 units
• C)47.34 units
• D)52.67 units

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Definitions:

Nominal Return

The amount of money gained or lost on an investment, without adjusting for inflation, as opposed to the real return which is adjusted for inflation.

Real Rate

The interest rate adjusted for inflation, representing the true cost of borrowing or the true return on investment.

Variance

A statistical measurement of the dispersion of a set of values, indicating how much the numbers in the set deviate from the mean or average of the set.

Deviations

Statistical variances or differences from a central value, such as the mean, indicating how spread out data points are.