3.

AON Diagram

Calculations
Duratio Early Early Late Late
Activity Slack
n start finish Start Finish

A 2 0 2 0 2 0

B 4 2 6 2 6 0

C 4 2 6 9 13 7

D 6 6 12 6 12 0

E 9 12 21 12 21 0

F 8 6 14 13 21 7

G 2 21 23 21 23 0

H 2 23 25 24 26 1

I 3 23 26 23 26 0

J 4 26 30 26 30 0

K 4 30 34 30 34 0
 
The critical activities are having slack zero so critical activities and the critical path is 
A-B-D-E-G-I-J-K
Total Project duration is the addition of critical path activities = 2+4+6+9+2+3+4+4=34

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Solution:
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3.10

a)
The PERT diagram is as below.
b) To calculate the critical path, we need to calculate the EST, EFT, LST and LFT. They are
calculated as below.
Predecesso
Activity Time EST EFT LST LFT
rs

Start   0 0 0 0 0

A   9 0 9 0 9

B A 7 9 16 9 16

C A 3 9 12 18 21

D B 6 16 22 20 26

E B 9 16 25 16 25

F C 4 12 16 21 25

G E,F 6 25 31 25 31

H D 5 22 27 26 31

I G,H 3 31 34 31 34

End   0 34 34 34 34
So, the critical path is the path for which EST=LST or EFT = LFT.
So, the critical path = Start -->A --->B --->E---->G--->I---> End 
c) The project completion time is the total time taken to complete the critical path. So, we need
to add the time for A,B.E.G and I. Therefore, it is 9+7+9+6+3 = 34