The following table contains the number of consumer complaints received in a Publix market in Hollywood, Florida.
Month Number of Complaints
January 36
February 45
March 81
April 90
May 108
June 144
For the table above, if exponential smoothing is used to smooth the series with a smoothing constant of a= 0.33, the March forecast, rounded to the nearest total number of complaints, is:
A. 39
B. 42
C. 45
D. 53
E. 64