Given the Following Chart of Jobs Assigned with Johnson's Rule

question 33

Essay

Given the following chart of jobs assigned with Johnson's rule suppose that all the jobs (A,B,C,etc)could be evenly divided into two tasks (such as A1 and A2,B1 and B2,etc).Suppose job B is divided into jobs B1 and B2,each with a body work time of 4.5 hours and a paint time of 2 hours.How much is makespan reduced by this splitting of B?

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