TABLE 16-5 the Number of Passengers Arriving at San Francisco on the on the Amtrak

question 39

Essay

TABLE 16-5
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 16-5, exponentially smooth the number of arrivals using a smoothing constant of 0.25.

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