A Project Consists of Four Consecutive Tasks That Have Average

question 104

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 one sigma buffer for this project.

• A)20 days
• B)10 days
• C)15 days
• D)5 days

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