TABLE 16-3 the Following Table Contains the Number of Complaints Received in Received

question 110

Multiple Choice

TABLE 16-3
The following table contains the number of complaints received in a department store for the first 6 months of last year.
-Referring to Table 16-3,if this series is smoothed using exponential smoothing with a smoothing constant of ,what would be the first value?

• A)36
• B)39
• C)42
• D)45

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