Which of These Statements Is Best

question 127

Multiple Choice

Which of these statements is best?

• A)Slack is the time an activity can be delayed without impacting the completion time of the project.
• B)The variance of the project completion time is equal to the sum of the variances of all the activities.
• C)In PERT, we assume that the project completion time can be modeled by the beta distribution.
• D)In PERT, the variance in completion time is equal to the variance of the most time-consuming activity on the critical path.

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