You Are a Senior Analyst in the Marketing Research Department

You are a senior analyst in the marketing research department of a major steel producer. You have been requested to make a forecast of domestic automobile production for the forthcoming calendar year in order to predict the total tonnage of steel that will be used by the automobile manufacturers. This is PRIMARILY a(n)

A) exploratory study.
B) descriptive study.
C) field experiment.
D) simulation.
E) laboratory experiment.