This is multiple choice question. Several levels of decision makers add certain percentages as safety margins. The executive level of the organization just completed a retreat for critical chain management and were energized and much wiser in the ways of project management. As they know that everyone has been routinely adding certain percentages as safety margins, they want to scale the project back to an unpadded estimate. How much should the top management cut?

team's decision	10%
project manager's decision	30%
divisional manager's decision	10%

a.41%

b.36%

c.none of these

d.31%

e.26%