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Help for activities C, E, F as well as the total crashing cost Problem 3.28 Ques

ID: 367804 • Letter: H

Question


Help for activities C, E, F as well as the total crashing cost Problem 3.28 Question Help Activity Duration (weeks) Precedes Crash Cost/Week A (start) $380 $120 $220 $160 $450 B, C F(end) Suppose that Rafay is only given 7 weeks (instead of 10) to complete the project. By how many weeks should each activity be crashed in order to meet the deadline? Assume that you can crash an activity down to 0 weeks duration. Each Activity Should be Reduced BY Activity weeks) 0 week(s) B 2 week(s) Enter your answer in the answer box and then click Check Answer.

Explanation / Answer

The possible paths and their cumulative durations as follows :

Path A-B-E-F = 33 + 22 + 22 + 22 = 99 weeks

Path A-C-F = 33 + 66 + 22 = 121 weeks

Since path A-C-F is of longer duration , it forms the critical path its duration is same as project duration

Therefore normal project duration = 121 weeks

The Question to be answered ( as given in BOX ) is by how many weeks activity A needs to be crashed.

It is given that the project needs be crashed to 88 weeks

Hence total number of weeks to be crashed = 121 – 88 = 33 weeks

Therefore Project A having Normal duration of 33 weeks needs to be crashed by 33 weeks

Activity

To be reduced by

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33 weeks