Table J.17 A Company Must Take on Seven New Projects. Each Project

question 102

Multiple Choice

Table J.17
A company must take on seven new projects. Each project has a planning stage and a design stage, and the planning stage must be completed before the design stage can begin. Also, two project teams are available to work on these projects: Team 1 works only on planning stages of projects, and Team 2 works only on design stages of projects. The times to complete the project stage, in days, are shown in the following table.

-Using the information in Table J.17 and Johnson's rule, how much idle time does Team 2 have from the start of the first project through completion of the seventh?

• A) 2 days
• B) 3 days
• C) 4 days
• D) 5 days

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