Question: Activity Duration Predecessor A 10 B 5 A C 12 A D 12 C E 30 B F 7 B G 9 F H 10

Activity

Duration

Predecessor

A

10

B

5

A

C

12

A

D

12

C

E

30

B

F

7

B

G

9

F

H

10

D & E & G

The critical path is 55 weeks. The customer will pay us a bonus of $100,000 if we can do it in 50 weeks and a bonus of $250,000 if we can do it in 45 weeks.

We can shorten E by 1 to 10 weeks and it will cost is $7500 per week for each week trimmed. We can shorten A to 7 weeks for $40,000. We can shorten H to three weeks by putting all hands on deck but it will cost us $150,000.

What most profitable (for us) crash (or not) do we propose to the customer. Post the activities crashed and the additional profit in the text area for this assignment.

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