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a) Find the means and standard deviations of the activity times, assuming Beta distribution.. b) Draw an activity-on-arrow diagram for the project. c) Using the mean activity times (in weeks) from part (a), carry out the forward and the backward pass calculations. Identify the critical path (B-D-F). What is the expected length of the critical path?

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Consider the project described:
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a) Find the means and standard deviations of the activity times, assuming Beta distribution..
b) Draw an activity-on-arrow diagram for the project.
c) Using the mean activity times (in weeks) from part (a), carry out the forward and the backward pass calculations. Identify the critical path (B-D-F). What is the expected length of the critical path?
d) Find the probability that the project will take: i) no more than 24 weeks ; ii) at least 25 weeks.
e) Find the range for the project completion time for which there is a probability of 0.72 of finishing the project during this time interval.

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a) Activity te 

A 6 1.67
B 7 1.33
C 6 1.33
D 6 0.67
E 9 2
F 9 1.33

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