Using Just the Wool Prices and a Smoothing Constant W

question 2

Multiple Choice

Using just the wool prices and a smoothing constant w = 0.8, find the exponentially smoothed value for May.

• A) 272.0
• B) 275.0
• C) 287.0
• D) 276.9

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