If president trump increases military spending to take a stronger stance against iran, then ceteris paribus, we would expect the us economy's output to o increase double decrease o be unaffected

The correct answer is letter "C": decrease.

Explanation:

Usually, military spending tends to slow economic growth since it discourages private investment which at the same time causes employment rates to drop. According to different researches, it is said that only a 1% increase in military spending could lead to up to 9% of economic growth decrease.

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.