Assignment:
A police station had to deploy a police officer..
A police station had to deploy a police officer for an emergency multiple times in the last four evenings. The table below shows the number of emergencies each evening.
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Weekday
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Number of calls each day
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Forecast for tomorrow (calls)
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10
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Monday
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5
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|
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Tuesday
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6
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Wednesday
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7
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Thursdsay
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9
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a. Complete the "Forecast for tomorrow column in the table above. Use an exponential smoothing forecasting approach, with a-0.3 and a forecast for Monday of 10. (Round your answer to 2 decimal places.) smoothing forecasting approach?
b. What would be their forecast for Friday using the same exponential smoothing forecasting approach?