Question: Drew is a demand analyst at the Ruby Memorial Hospital and has collected data for a commonly used surgical instrument. However, Drew s dog ate

Drew is a demand analyst at the Ruby Memorial Hospital and has collected data for a commonly used surgical instrument. However, Drews dog ate the work, and Drew needs to do some quick calculations to fill in some details for a presentation to Dr. Paine (the boss) in the next ten minutes (Assume one period ahead forecasts).
Demand
Year Month Demand
2019 Sept 319
2019 Oct 295
2019 Nov 305
2019 Dec 287
2020 Jan 300
2020 Feb 295
2020 Mar 290
2020 Apr 285
2020 May 280
2020 Jun 293
2020 Jul 305
2020 Aug 327
Help poor Drew with calculating a moving average forecast (N=4) for January 2020; assume we forecast one period, i.e. if we are at a time t we want to forecast demand at the time t+1.

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