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

question 117

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, what is the makespan for these seven jobs?

• A) 58 days or greater
• B) greater than or equal to 55 days but less than 58 days
• C) greater than or equal to 52 days but less than 55 days
• D) less than 52 days

Know the empirical rule and how it applies to data distribution.

Identify and calculate central tendency measures, specifically the median.

Understand measures of dispersion and be able to list and describe them.

Understand the concept of kurtosis and how it affects data distribution.

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Definitions:

Deductively Organized

An approach to organization that starts with a general assertion or hypothesis and then presents specific evidence or examples to support it.

Buffer

A temporary storage area where data is held while being transferred between two locations or processed.

Dependent Clause

A group of words with a subject and verb that cannot stand alone as a complete sentence because it does not express a complete thought.

Buffer

A temporary storage area used to manage differences in processing rates between producers and consumers of data in computing or in audio/video streaming.