The national consumer product safety commission estimates that 20 million serious injuries and 30,000 deaths a year are caused by:

Unsafe consumer product.

Explanation:

The national consumer product safety commission reduce the risk of death and injury caused by unsafe consumer product by developing or creating a benchmark standard in the industry and enforcing the required standard of the product. They also ban the consumer product which does not meet the standard in the industry. Product safety is important for a consumer to protect them from harm and diseases caused by the unsafe products they use, like personal care products, household products, etc.

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.