Q: After constructing the project network diagram, management comes up with the following information regarding how many days certain activities can be crashed and at what cost. Suppose that every day the project goes on costs the company $7,000. How many days should management crash the project? What activities should it crash? What is the new project length?

A: Management should crash activities _____ by _____ day(s) and _____ by _____ day(s). (Enter your responses as whole numbers.)

Score: 0.78 of 1 pt 2 of 4 (4 complete) HW Score: 94.57%, 3.78 of 4 pts Problem 3 A Question Help E J M E M i More Info C. a B F Activity . B D E F G H Duration (days) 19 3 6 32 18 11 H 17 18 Predecessors None A A A A B D, E E E F, G, H I, J, K L, M A N I D 14 9 29 J K L M N 10 E M 10 16 Print Done . Score: 0.78 of 1 pt 2 of 4 (4 complete) HW Score: 94.57%, 3.78 of 4 pts Problem 3 A Question Help 0 b. Identify all the paths through the network and their lengths. Fill in the table below (enter your responses as whole numbers). More Info Path Length (days) 59 A-B-F-L -N A-C -G-L-N 68 A-C-H-L -N 69 Activity Number of Days Activity Can Be Crashed A-D-I-M-N 91 B D A-E -I-M-N 77 Crash Cost per Day $3,000 $8,000 $2,500 $6,000 $4,500 $4.000 2 3 3 E A-E-J-M -N 72 G H A-E-K -M-N 92 3 2 - c. The critical activities are A, E, K, M, and N, so they make up the critical path. Print Done The entire project will take 92 days to complete. (Enter your response as a whole number.) d. After you completed part b and before you performed the forward and backward passes, you could already tell that activities A and N are on the critical path(s). Why? O A. The durations of these activities are the largest. OB. Activity N has only two predecessors. O C. Delay in these activities will not cause the entire project to be late. D. They are always the start and end activities. e. After constructing the project network diagram, management comes up with the following information regarding how many days certain activities can be crashed and at what cost. Suppose that every day the project anac an nnete the camnanu 7 nnn Wau manu dau chaud mannaamant arch tha nrniant What antivitise chaud it arach? What is the new roinnt lanath? 2x Problem 3 Question Help O H- -U-L-IN 00 A-C-H-L -N 69 i More Info A-D-I-M-N 91 A-E -I-M-N 77 A-E-J-M -N 72 Activity Number of Days Activity Can Be Crashed A-E-K -M-N 92 1 c. The critical activities are A, E, K, M, and N, so they make up the critical path. B D E G H 2 3 3 3 Crash Cost per Day $3,000 $8,000 $2,500 $6,000 $4,500 $4,000 The entire project will take 92 days to complete. (Enter your response as a whole number.) - 2 d. After you completed part b and before you performed the forward and backward passes, you could already tell that activities A and N Print Done A. The durations of these activities are the largest. OB. Activity N has only two predecessors. O C. Delay in these activities will not cause the entire project to be late. D. They are always the start and end activities. e. After constructing the project network diagram, management comes up with the following information regarding how many days certain activities can be crashed and at what cost. Suppose that every day the project goes on costs the company $7,000. How many days should management crash the project? What activities should it crash? What is the new project length? Click the icon to view the number of days certain activities can be crashed and its cost. Management should crash activities V by by day(s) and V by day(s). (Enter your responses as whole numbers.)