Given an Actual Demand of 103, a Previous Forecast Value

question 125

Multiple Choice

Given an actual demand of 103, a previous forecast value of 99, and an alpha of .4, the exponential smoothing forecast for the next period would be

• A) 94.6
• B) 97.4
• C) 100.6
• D) 101.6
• E) 103.0

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