Several months ago, the hospital hired an ambitiousmanagement consulting firm, Creative Chaos Consultants,to forecast the number of calls the call center would receiveeach hour of the day. Since all appointment and registrationrelated calls would be received by the call center, the consultants decided that they could forecast the calls at the callcenter by totaling the number of appointment and registration-related calls received by all clinics and departments.The team members visited all the clinics and departments,where they diligently recorded every call relating to appointments and registration. They then totaled these callsand altered the totals to account for calls missed during datacollection. They also altered totals to account for repeat callsthat occurred when the same parent called the hospital manytimes because of the confusion surrounding the decentralized process. Creative Chaos Consultants determined the average number of calls the call center should expect duringeach hour of a weekday. The following table provides theforecasts.