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

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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 sequence of projects that minimizes makespan?

• A) C-A-D-G-E-F-B
• B) C-A-D-B-G-F-E
• C) G-E-C-A-D-F-B
• D) G-E-F-B-D-A-C

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