Hossein would like his colleague Stefan to develop a moving average forecast with nine periods, but he knows that Stefan is familiar only with single exponential smoothing as a forecasting technique. In the interest of expediency, Hossein decides to tell Stefan to create a single exponential smoothing forecast that has the same effect as a moving average. What alpha should Hossein tell Stefan to use to approximate a moving average forecast with n $=9?$

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a$.$

$0\mathrm{.}30$

b$.$

$0\mathrm{.}20$

c$.$

$0\mathrm{.}15$

d$.$

$0\mathrm{.}25$