A Contractor's Project Being Analyzed by PERT Has an Estimated

question 9

Multiple Choice

A contractor's project being analyzed by PERT has an estimated time for the critical path of 120 days.The sum of all activity variances is 81;the sum of variances along the critical path is 64.What is the probability that the project will take 130 or more days to complete?

• A)0.1057
• B)0.1335
• C)0.8512
• D)0.8943
• E)1.29

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