Given an Actual Demand of 105, a Forecasted Value of 97

question 59

Multiple Choice

Given an actual demand of 105, a forecasted value of 97, and an alpha of .4, the simple exponential smoothing forecast for the next period would be:

• A) 80.8.
• B) 93.8.
• C) 100.2.
• D) 101.8.
• E) 108.2.

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