Operations Management
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ISBN: 9781259667473
Author: William J Stevenson
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 17, Problem 9DRQ
Why might a probabilistic estimate of a project’s completion time based solely on the variance of the critical path be misleading? Under what circumstances would it be acceptable?
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You have determined the following for a given project:
Expected completion time of the project = 26 weeks
Standard deviation of project completion time = 8
What is the probability of completing the project in more than 32 weeks?
answer as a decimal and take it to four places.
Answer following 4 questions
1: The probability that the project would be completed within 40 days:
Group of answer choices
0.0228
0.0456
0.4772
0.9772
None of the above
2: The probability that the project would take longer than 40 days is:
Group of answer choices
0.0228
0.0456
0.4772
0.9772
None of the above
3: The probability that the project would be completed within 20 days:
Group of answer choices
0.0228
0.0456
0.4772
0.9772
None of the above
4: The probability that the project would take longer than 20 days to finish:
Group of answer choices
0.0228
0.0456
0.4772
0.9772
None of the above
Compute the expected time and variance for each activity.
What is the critical path and the expected duration of the project?
What is the probability that the project will take longer than 58 days to complete?
Chapter 17 Solutions
Operations Management
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