a) Based on the given information regarding the activities for the project, the project length =

_______ weeks.

Part 3

b) The total cost required for completing this project on normal time =

$_______.

Part 4

c) For reducing the duration of the project by one week, the activity that should be crashed first is activity

_______

.

Part 5

The cost of the project based on the first activity selected for crashing will increase by

_______

Part 6

d) The maximum weeks by which the project can be reduced by crashing =

_______

weeks.

Part 7

Total cost of crashing the project to minimum (or maximum weeks possible) =

_______

Coleman Rich Control Devices, Inc., produces custom-built relay devices for auto makers. The most recent project undertaken by Rich requires 14 different activities. Rich's managers would like to determine the total project completion time (in days) and those activities that lie along the critical path. The appropriate data are shown in the following table