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

question 17

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, on which day will project F be completed?

• A) day 33 or earlier
• B) day 33-day 36
• C) day 37-day 40
• D) day 41 or later

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