A Project Consists of Six Consecutive Tasks That Have Average

question 63

Multiple Choice

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

• A) 5 days
• B) 6 days
• C) 7 days
• D) 9 days

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