A dry cleaner uses exponential smoothing to forecast equipment usage at its main plant. August usage was forecasted to be 55 percent of capacity; actual usage was 52 percent of capacity. A smoothing constant of .15 is used. a. Prepare a forecast for September. (Round your final answer to 2 decimal places.) Forecast for September percent of capacity b. Assuming actual September usage of 62 percent, prepare a forecast for October usage. (Round your answer to 2 decimal places.) Forecast for October percent of capacity

The cook corporation has two divisions--east and west. the divisions have the following revenues and expenses: east west sales $ 603,000 $ 506,000 variable costs 231,000 300,000 traceable fixed costs 151,500 192,000 allocated common corporate costs 128,600 156,000 net operating income (loss) $ 91,900 $ (142,000 ) the management of cook is considering the elimination of the west division. if the west division were eliminated, its traceable fixed costs could be avoided. total common corporate costs would be unaffected by this decision. given these data, the elimination of the west division would result in an overall company net operating income (loss)