A Coal Extracting Company Is Worried About the Depleting Coal

question 186

Multiple Choice

A coal extracting company is worried about the depleting coal reserves in various parts of the world. It wants to make future projections for reserve sizes and depletion rates that are useful in the planning process. Which of the following quantitative approaches should the company apply?

• A) inventory analysis
• B) mathematical forecasting
• C) queuing theory
• D) linear programming
• E) network models

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