You Run a Software Development Business in Toronto

question 5

Multiple Choice

You run a software development business in Toronto. You are offered a chance to bid on a government contract that you estimate will require 600 000 lines of code, deliverable in one year. You have developed a model: Effort = 3.0(KLOC) 1.2 to predict the effort, in programmer-months, required to complete a job, where `KLOC' stands for `thousands of lines of code'. On the basis of this model, how many programmers should you assign to work on the project?

• A)150
• B)450
• C)540
• D)1 800
• E)6 500

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