Question: Set. ( A ) The actual demand for the patients at Omaha Emergency Medical Clinic for the first 6 weeks of this year follows:

Set. (A) The actual demand for the patients at Omaha Emergency Medical Clinic for the first 6 weeks of this year follows:
\table[[WEEK,\table[[ACTUAL HO of],[PATIEHIS]]],[1,65],[2,62],[3,70],[4,48],[5,63],[6,52]]
Clinic administrator wants you to forecast patient demand at the clinic for week 7 by using this data. You decide to use a weighted moving average method to find this forecast. Your method uses four actual demand levels, with weights of 0.333 in the present period, 0.25 one period ago, 0.25 two periods ago, and 0.167 three periods ago.
a) What is the value of your forecast?
b) If instead, the weights were 20,15,15, and 10, respectively, how would the forecast change? Explain why.
c) Calculate the MAPE for both cases.
[10 Marks]
 Set. (A) The actual demand for the patients at Omaha Emergency

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