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Bolling Electronics manufactures DVD players for commercial use. W. Blaker Boiling, president of Bolling Electronics, is contemplating producing DVD players for home use. The activities necessary to build an experimental model and related data are given in the following table:

Bolling Electronics manufactures DVD players for commercial use.

(a) What is the project completion date?
(b) Crash this project to 10 weeks at the least cost.
(c) Crash this project to 7 weeks (which is the maximum it can be crashed) at the leastcost.

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Normal Crash Time Tm Normal Crash Immediate Activity (weeks) (weeks) Cost () Cost (S) Predecessor(s) 2 1,000 1,600 12,000 2,700 300 300 3 1,300 ,600 850 1,000 14.000 5,000 1,500 2,000 D, E

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