Data collected on the yearly registrations for a Six Sigma seminar at the Quality College are shown in the following table:

Year	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11
Registrations (000)	5.00	5.00	3.00	6.00	9.00	7.00	8.00	10.00	13.00	16.00	17.00

Part 2

a) Calculate the forecasted registrations for years 2 through 12 using exponential smoothing, with a smoothing constant

()

of

0.30

and a starting forecast of

4.00

for year 1 (round your responses to one decimal

place):

Year	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12
Forecast (000)	4.00	enter your response here	enter your response here	enter your response here	enter your response here	enter your response here	enter your response here	enter your response here	enter your response here	enter your response here	enter your response here	enter your response here