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Q-6). Consider a small project that involves the following activities.

Preceding
Activity

Activity

Completion Times (days)

Optimistic

Most Likely

Pessimistic

18

15

20

b,c

16

17

18

(a) Determine the expected value and the variance of the completion time for each
activity.
(b) Use the expected times from (a) to find the critical path.
(c) Assuming that the normal distribution applies, determine the probability that the
critical path will take between 18 and 26 days to complete.

NEW QUESTION:A bridge is to be made and let it involves the following activities

Preceding
Activity

Activity

Completion Times (days)

Optimistic

Most Likely

Pessimistic

15

14

21

b,c

17

18

19

(a) Determine the expected value and the variance of the completion time for each
activity.
(b) Use the expected times from (a) to find the critical path.

Solution:(a)
Activity

Mean

Variance

4/36

100/36

14

196/36

18

4/36

(b) Simply by looking at the table we can see that the critical path is AC-D