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Question 1 1
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The estimated times and immediate predecessors for

the activities in a project at George Kyparis’s retinal
scanning company are given in the following table.
Assume that the activity times are independent.

Time (Weeks)

Activity Immediate Predecessor a m b

A — 9 10 11

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B — 4 10 16
C A 9 10 11
D B 5  8 11

a. What is the expected completion time of the critical

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path? [ Select ]
weeks. What is

the expected completion time of the other path in the

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network? [ Select ]
weeks

b. What is the variance of the critical path?

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What is the variance

of the other path in the network?

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c. If the time to complete path A–C is normally

distributed, what is the probability that this path will
be finished in 22 weeks or less?

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[ Select ]
 

d. If the time to complete path B–D is normally

distributed, what is the probability that this path will
be finished in 22 weeks or less?

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[ Select ]
 

Answer 1:

20

Answer 2:

18

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Answer 3:

.22

Answer 4:

Answer 5:

1.00

Answer 6:

.96

 
Question 2 1
/ 1 pts

Given the activities described by the following table:

STD of Immediate
Expected
Activity Time Predecessor
Time
Estimate (s)
a 7 2 -
b 3 1 a
c 9 3 a
d 4 1 b,c
e 5 1 b,c
f 8 2 e
g 8 1 d,f
h 6 2 g

a. What is the project completion time?

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[ Select ]

b. What is the project standard deviation? 4.8

 

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c. Find the probability that the project will take more

than 49 time periods to complete?

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Answer 1:

43

Answer 2:

4.8

Answer 3:

10.6%

 
Question 3 1
/ 1 pts

Pirmin's Bike Shop is behind on a custom bike and

needs to crash 8 hours of time from the 8-step
project. Given the project table below calculate the
crash cost for 8 hours of time-savings. Suppose Pirmin
calls the customer and asks for a project extension,
reducing the amount of time he needs to crash. 

Normal Normal Crash Crash

Immediate
Activity Duration Cost Duration Cost
Predecessors
(hours) ($) (hours) ($)
A 2 10 2 0 -
B 3 15 2 23 A
C 5 25 4 30 B
D 3 20 1 24 C
E 6 30 4 45 C
F 1 5 1 0 C,E
G 7 35 6 50 F

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H 10 50 7 80 D,G

a. What is the critical path?

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[ Select ]

b. What is the project length?

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c. Which activity should the bike shop crash first

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[ Select ]
, and how much

would it add to the project cost?

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[ Select ]

d. Which activity should be crashed next to reduce an

additional hour off the project

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[ Select ]
, and what would be

the total cost? (reducing the project by 2 hours)

$12.50
  

Answer 1:

A,B,C,E,F,G,H

Answer 2:

34 Hours

Answer 3:

Answer 4:

$5

Answer 5:

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Answer 6:

$12.50

 
Question 4 1
/ 1 pts

Given the project within the table below, calculate the

following:

Duration Immediate
Activity
(hours) Predecessors
A 4 -
B 3 -
C 10 -
D 7 B,C
E 1 D
F 1 E
G 5 A,F

a. What is the critical path

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[ Select ]
and it's length

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[ Select ]

b. How much slack does activity A have? 15

c. How much slack does activity B have?

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d. How much slack does activity G have?

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e. For activity E, what is the late start

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[ Select ]
[ Select ]
, and the late finish

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[ Select ]
.

Answer 1:

C,D,E,F,G

Answer 2:

24 hours

Answer 3:

15

Answer 4:

Answer 5:

Answer 6:

17

Answer 7:

18

 
Partial Question 5 0.5
/ 1 pts

The critical path for the project has an expected

duration of 112 days, and a standard deviation of 5
days.

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The probability of finishing on time if the due date is

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115 days is [ Select ]
.

A penalty must be paid if the project runs over 120

days. The probability that they will have to pay the

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penalty is [ Select ]
.

Answer 1:

.726

Answer 2:

.945

 
Question 6 1
/ 1 pts

One path on a project has 3 tasks, A, B, and C. The

expected times for these tasks are 31, 34, and 20
respectively.  Their standard deviations are 3, 4 and 2
respectively.  The expected time  for this path is 85
and standard deviation of this path is 5.4
.

Answer 1:

85

Answer 2:

5.4

 
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Question 7

Given the following task time estimates,

Task       OPT        ML          PESS                     

  1           31          40           60

  2           15          20           25

  3           17          25           41

The expected time for task 1 is

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[ Select ]
and its standard

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deviation is [ Select ]
.

The expected time for task 2 is

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[ Select ]
and its standard

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deviation is [ Select ]
.

The expected time for task 3 is

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[ Select ]
and its standard

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deviation is [ Select ]
.

Answer 1:

41.83

Answer 2:

4.83

Answer 3:

20

Answer 4:

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1.67

Answer 5:

26.33

Answer 6:

 
Question 8 1
/ 1 pts

The critical path on a project has 4 tasks, A, B, C, and

D.  The allowable amounts of crashing and the costs
for crashing are given as

Task              #days allowed   $$$/day

  A                           2                  30

  B                           3                  50

  C                           1                  25

  D                           2                  15

To crash the project by 6 days, 

A should be crashed by

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[ Select ]
days.

B should be crashed by

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[ Select ]
days.

C should be crashed by

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[ Select ]
days.

D should be crashed by 2
days.

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The order of crashing these will be DDCAAB

.

The total cost of crashing by 6 days will be

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[ Select ]
.

Answer 1:

Answer 2:

Answer 3:

Answer 4:

Answer 5:

DDCAAB

Answer 6:

165

 
Question 9 1
/ 1 pts

The following information is provided for the tasks on

a project. Times are in days.

Task       Time           Predecessor

  A           12                          ---          

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  B           21                          ---

  C            8                           A

  D            6                           C

  E            7                          B, C

  F           15                           E

  G            5                            D

  H           17                          F, G

The critical path is BEFH

.

The time to complete this project will be 60

.

The slack for task G is 12

If 3 days is added to task A , how long will the project

take to complete? 62

Answer 1:

BEFH

Answer 2:

60

Answer 3:

12

Answer 4:

62

 
Question 10 1
/ 1 pts

The following information is provided for crashing

analysis.

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Task       NT          CT                  Normal cost

        Crash cost         Imm. Pred.

  A             8           6                           

1400                     1600                --

  B             5           5                             

500                      500                 --

  C             3           2                            

 800                      850                 A

  D             4           3                            

1100                    1300                 B

  E             6           5                              

900                    1150                C,D

The project will take 17

days to complete.

In what order would you crash the activities to crash

the project by 3 days?

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[ Select ]

What is the additional cost to do this crashing?

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[ Select ]

After crashing, the project will be completed in

[ Select ]
[ Select ]
days.

Answer 1:

17

Answer 2:

CAE

Answer 3:

400

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Answer 4:

14

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