Crescent-Puritan Laundry and Dry Cleaning Uses Last Year's Sales as a Starting

question 49

Multiple Choice

Crescent-Puritan Laundry and Dry Cleaning uses last year's sales as a starting point to estimate next year's sales and then looks at positive and negative influences that may affect sales. This is an example of:

• A)linear trend extrapolation.
• B)a lost-horse forecast.
• C)statistical inference.
• D)experimental estimation.

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