A Project Consists of Six Consecutive Tasks That Have Average

question 52

Multiple Choice

A project consists of six consecutive tasks that have average duration and worst-case duration estimates (in days) as shown in the table.Use Newbold's method to determine the aggregated two sigma buffer for this project.

• A)44 days
• B)6 days
• C)17 days
• D)9 days

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