The demand for heart transplant surgery at washington


AS you can see in the following table, the demand for heart transplant surgery at Washington General Hospital has decreased steadily in the past few years:

Year                                       1     2      3     4     5    6

Heart Transplants              60   58    56   52   50 40

a) Compute a 3-year weighted moving average for years 4 thru 6 in which heart transplant surgeries in the most recent year is given a weight of 6, and surgeries in the other two years are each given a weight of 3.

b) Compute the MAPE.

c) How do you interpret the answer in part(b)?

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