Given an Actual Demand This Period of 67, a Forecast

question 117

Multiple Choice

Given an actual demand this period of 67, a forecast for this period of 58, and an alpha of 0.3, what would the forecast for the next period be using exponential smoothing?

• A) 55.3
• B) 57.1
• C) 58.9
• D) 61.0
• E) 60.7

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