TABLE 16-7 the Number of Passengers Arriving at San Francisco on the on the Amtrak

question 129

Short Answer

TABLE 16-7
The number of passengers arriving at San Francisco on the Amtrak cross-country express on 6 successive Mondays were: 60, 72, 96, 84, 36, and 48.
-Referring to Table 16-7, the number of arrivals will be exponentially smoothed with a smoothing constant of 0.25. The smoothed value for the third Monday will be_____ .

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