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The following table contains the number of complaints received in a department store for the first 6 months of last year.

Month Complaints
January 36
February 45
March 81
April 90
May 108
June 144

Referring to the table above, if this series is smoothed using exponential smoothing with a smoothing constant of 1/3, what would be the first term?

A. 36
B. 39
C. 42
D. 45

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