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

question 136

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 Holt-Winters method for forecasting with smoothing constant of 0.9 for both level and trend will be used to forecast the number of arrivals. The forecast for the twelfth Monday is_______ .

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