Use the Following to Answer the Question Below

question 21

Multiple Choice

Use the following to answer the question below.
The time series graph below shows monthly sales figures for a specialty gift item sold on the Home Shopping Network (HSN) .
-The dominant time series component in these data is

• A) cyclical.
• B) seasonal.
• C) random walk.
• D) irregular.
• E) index numbers.

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