What do individual shareholders gain when they buy shares of a company’s stock?
a.) they gain partial ownership in the corporation.
b.) they gain the power to fix company stock prices.
c.) they gain the right to decide the business location.
d.) they gain discounts on the company’s products.

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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.