Because there are dozens of brands of tablet computers to choose from, the elasticity of demand for the tablet market is:

The elasticity of demand for the tablet market is elastic. It is because if there are dozen of tablets to choose from, then the demand will likely be in respond to the prices in which it won’t be inelastic as the prices that change won’t put an effect on them as the prices will likely be an effect as they will likely chose the brand that doesn’t cost that much.

the answerr would be 1

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.