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Chapter 18, Problem 5DQ
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Interpretation: Whether the assumption that the cost of crashing an activity is linearly proportional to the amount of time that activity is crashed is reasonable along with reasons and the way economies and diseconomies of scale address this issue.
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During the crashing of a project, the duration of the project is shortened by reducing the time of one or more critical activity.
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