Table 11-9 a Mad Scientist Has Identified the Twelve Steps Required to Required

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Essay

Table 11-9
A mad scientist has identified the twelve steps required to complete his "take over the world" rehabilitation.The estimated time in weeks and cost in US dollars appear in the table along with the shortest possible duration for each activity and cost of those expedited activities.

-Consider the project summarized in Table 11-9.In addition to the cost of the activities, the mad scientist must rent a menagerie of comfort animals during his program.The menagerie includes a number of animals, plus the feed, along with the services of a shepherd at a cost of $700 per week.What is the duration of the normal completion time and total project cost at that time? The mad scientist discovers he is allergic to llamas and decides to finish the project as quickly as possible in order to get the animals out of his studio apartment in Greenwich Village.What activities should be crashed to minimize the project duration? What is the new project duration and cost?

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