Crescent-Puritan Laundry and Dry Cleaning Uses Last Year's Sales as a Starting

Multiple Choice

Crescent-Puritan Laundry and Dry Cleaning uses last year's sales as a starting point to estimate next year's sales and then looks at positive and negative influences that may affect sales. This is an example of:

A) linear trend extrapolation.
B) a lost-horse forecast.
C) statistical inference.
D) experimental estimation.