Problem 3.28 - Bookmatch

Problem The following is a table of activities associated with a project at Rafay Ishfaq's software firm in Chicago, their durations, what activities each must precede and the crash cost to reduce duration per week:

Activity	Duration (weeks)	Precedes	Crash Cost/Week
A (start)	1	B, C	$ 400
B	1	E	$ 100
C	4	F	$ 200
E	2	F	$ 300
F (end)	2	long dash	$ 400

Suppose that Rafay is only given 5 weeks (instead of7) to complete the project. By how many weeks should each activity be crashed in order to meet thedeadline? Assume that you can crash an activity down to 0 weeks duration.

Activity

Each Activity Should be Reduced BY

(days)

A

?

B

?

C

?

E

?

D

?