Andrea wants to take her husband, bill, to an exotic island to surprise him on their tenth wedding anniversary. she has made reservations at an expensive hotel. however, she is now worried whether she is going to get service worth the money she spent. in this scenario, andrea's inner tension would reduce if:

The answer is: her friends also recommend the hotel.

In business perspective, Recommendation from an individual that people trust would generally more believable compared to the words that spoken by the marketers. This perception happen because most costumers generally believe that business establishments would say whatever it needs to obtain customers.

a manufacturer of printed circuit boards uses exponential smoothing with trend to forecast monthly demand of its product. at the end of december, the company wishes to forecast sales for january. the estimate of trend through november has been 200 additional boards sold per month. average sales have been around 1000 units per month. the demand for december was 1100 units. the company uses α = 0.20 and β = 0.10. make a forecast including trend for the month of january.

the answer is a. $209,000