Dream Team Productions was in the final design phases of its new film, Killer Worms, to be released next summer. Market Wise, the firm hired to coordinate the release of Killer Worms toys, identified 16 critical tasks to be completed before the release of the film.

(a) How many weeks in advance of the film release should Market Wise start its marketing campaign? What are the critical path activities? The tasks are as follows:

(b) If Tasks 9 and 10 were not necessary, what impact would this have on the critical path and the number of weeks needed to complete the marketingcampaign?

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MOST IMMEDIATE OPTIMISTIC LIKELY PESSIMISTIC ACTIVITY PREDECESSOR TIME TIME TIME Task 1 2 Task 2 3 3.5 4 Task 3 10 12 13 Task 4 4 Task 5 Task 6 Task 1 Task 7 Task 2 2 4 5.5 Task 8 Task 3 7.7 Task 9 12 Task 3 9.9 10 Task 10 Task 3 2 4. Task 11 Task 4 2 6 Task 12 Task 5 4 6. Tasks 6, 7, 8 Task 13 5 6.5 Tasks 10, 11, 12 Task 14 1.1 Task 15 Tasks 9. 13 Task 16 Task 14 9 4.