You are developing a performance progress report for a project you are managing. The following time$-$phased budget was developed earlier in the planning stage and is being used as the standard against which the project performance is measured.

$\backslash$table$[[$Work Packages,W$1,$W$2,$W$3,$W$4,$W$5,$W$6,$W$7,$W$8,$W$9,$W$10,$W$11],[$A$,7,6,8,,,,,,,,],[$B$,,,,7,4,9,,,,,],[$C$,,,,,,,9,2,9,4,7],[$Total$,7,6,8,7,4,9,9,2,9,4,7]]$

At the end of Week $8,$ activity $"$C$"$ is $50\%$ complete. What is the Earned Value of this activity?

Use two decimal places in your calculations.