Real-Life Math
You are a medical records technician. You're required to keep quarterly records on occupancy statistics for the nursing home's board of directors. At the end of each quarter, you must report those statistics. Tomorrow is the deadline for having that report ready.
In order to write the report, you have to pull the occupancy records from April through June, collect the total number of rooms occupied, and then figure the percentage of rooms not occupied.
To determine the quarterly occupancy rate, you have to average the results for the 3-month period. And you have to compare this quarter with last quarter, during which time the quarterly average of rooms occupied was 98 percent.
Your nursing home is not large. It has only 150 rooms, and each one is private. During the month of April, 137 of those rooms were occupied. During May, 142 of the rooms were occupied. And at the end of June, all 150 rooms were occupied. You also have a waiting list for future rooms that might become free.
One of the unfortunate truths of working in a nursing home is that once a person is admitted to the home, they usually don't leave until they pass on. However, it seems that it's cyclic, and certain times of the year there are more occupancies than other times of the year.
What did your occupancy statistics look like for the quarter April through June, and how do they compare to the statistics for the year before?