The city of imperial falls contracts with evergreen waste collection to provide solid waste collection to households and businesses. until recently, evergreen had an exclusive franchise to provide this service in imperial falls, which meant that other waste collection firms could not operate legally in the city. the price per pound of waste collected was regulated at 25 percent above the average total cost of collection. cost data for the most recent year of operations for evergreen are as follows:

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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.