Question: I ONLY NEED HELP WITH QUESTION 3 PART a & b. My excel is currently not working. I have figured the calculations out but Cannot

I ONLY NEED HELP WITH QUESTION 3 PART a & b. My excel is currently not working. I have figured the calculations out but Cannot get my excel updated to do the linear programming. I ONLY NEED HELP WITH QUESTION 3 PART a & b. My

I ONLY NEED HELP WITH QUESTION 3 PART a & b. My

I figured out questions 1 and 2. But with my excel currently not having the data analysis tool I need, I am having trouble figuring out question 3.. part a and b. B D Dr. Ell has been given a budget of $10,000 to organize a conference at her university in 3 months' time (13 weeks) via an educational grant. She has a team of 2 research assistants and after some deliberation, they identified the following activities that are required to be completed for hosting a successful conference Activity Description Immediate Predecessor A Planning Topics and Sessions B Identifying potential venues in the city Selecting a venue for the conference Inviting presenters from various universities A,C Finalizing presenters for each session F Completing registration for all presenters Last minute edits, replacements, and lists F Dr. Ell has approached you, her student, to help her figure this out, as a part of her Management Science class assignment. Please give your responses, with appropriate explanations, tables, and formulas, where relevant to the following questions: 1. Follow a PERT/CPM model to identify the project network, activity schedule, critical activities, and the expected time for completing the project successfully. The expected completion times for each of the listed activities is based on the experiences of all the people on the team and is as follows: E D E Activity Optimistic Most Probable Pessimistic A 1 2 6 B 1 2 3 1 3 5 D 1 2 3 E 1 2 3 F 1 2 3 1 1 1 2. Dr. Ell is worried about completing all the required activities before the 13-week deadline is up, because she has never hosted a conference before. She wants to know, based on her team's estimates what is the probability of NOT completing the activities by the end of 13 weeks. 3. In order to have some peace of mind, Dr. Ell decides that she is willing to pay her Research Assistants extra money, out of her own pocket, in order to complete the project within 10 weeks. She has identified the following crashing options for each activity. 3,000 D 1 500 Crashed Activity Cost ($) Activity Time Normal Crashing A 1 1,000 2,000 B 1 500 1,000 1 2,000 1,000 5,000 6,000 500 1,300 500 700 a. Write a Linear Program to help Dr. Ell identify which, if any, activities should be crashed and how much that would cost her. Remember, since she is paying personally for the extra crashing time, she wants to minimize costs. E 1 1 F 0.5 b. Provide a clear solution using the SOLVER and present your case for her consideration by showing an updated activity schedule and network diagram, if she decides to implement the crashing of activities, such that the project is completed by the end of Week 10

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