assignment exercise 4

4. Demand for patient surgery at Calmette Hospital has increased steadily in the past few years, as seen in the following table: Year No. of Surgeries 1 45 2 50 3 52 4 56 5 58 5 _ a. The director of medical services predicted 6 years ago that demand in year 1 would be 42 surgeries. Using exponential smoothing with a weight of a = 0.20, develop forecasts for years 2 through 6