A Project Consists of Four Consecutive Tasks That Have Average

question 4

Multiple Choice

A project consists of four consecutive tasks that have average duration and worst-case duration estimates (in days) as shown in the table. Use Newbold's model to determine the aggregated buffer of one standard deviation for this project.

• A) 31 days
• B) 16 days
• C) 8 days
• D) 5 days

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