Question: The following project information is shown below in the table. The project will incur a cost of $1000 per day for each day starting day

The following project information is shown below in the table. The project will incur a cost of $1000 per day for each day starting day one. In order to save expenses, the project manager decided that the project must be completed 10 days sooner than planned. Ensure you crash the activities at the minimal possible cost.

Task

Normal time (days)

Precedes task

Available days to crash (days)

Crash cost per day

A

24

B, C

10

$750

B

16

D, E

10

$500

C

8

D, E

2

$150

D

24

G

4

$700

E

8

F

6

$200

F

8

G

6

$200

G

8

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2

$800

5. After the project has been reduced (crashed) by ten (10) days, how many days are there in the same path of A-C-D-G?

54

60

62

64

6. Which activity would you crash first?

A

B

C

G

7. If you did not crash the project at all, what would be the minimum project cost?

$72,000

$64,000

$62,000

$74,000

8. What is lowest cost to crash the project by 10 days (include only the crashing cost)?

$5000

$5300

$5500

$5600

9. Assuming you can crash the project by 10 days, what would be the total project cost?

$67,600

$67,500

$67,300

$62,000

10. On crash day ten, which of the following activities would be included in your lowest cost crash scenario?

A

C

D

G

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