Kelle Carpet and Trim installs carpet in commercial offices. Peter Kelle has been very concerned with the amount of time it took to complete several recent jobs. Some of his workers are very unreliable. A list of activities and their optimistic completion time, the most likely completion time, and the pessimistic completion time (all in days) for a new contract are given in the following table: Activity A B C D E F G H I J K This exercise contains only part a. a) Based on the activity time estimates, the expected times and variance for each of the activities are: (Round your responses to two decimal places.) a 4 10 1 7 2 1 7 10 4 13 5 Time (days) m 5 11 2 8 4 2 11 11 6 15 9 b 9 12 3 9 6 3 14 12 8 17 13 Immediate Predecessor(s) с B, D A, E Α.Ε. E F G C H, I

To complete an assembly line in a factory, the major steps and seven activities involved are shown in table below. These activities have been labeled "A" through "G" in the following table, which also shows their estimated completion times (in weeks) and immediate predecessors. (m is average time, a is best case, b is worst case) ACTIVITY A B C D E F G a 1 2 4 8 2 4 1 m 2 23 3 5 9 5 5 2 b 3 4 6 10 8 6 3 IMMEDIATE PREDECESSORS A B C, D B E a) Determine the critical path for the entire assembly factory as well as the expected completion time [You may use scratch paper to find the path then just type the critical path for the total project in the answer box] b) In addition, determine the earliest and latest start and finish times for all activities. c) What is the main difference between the standard CPM and the PERT method?

workbook. Problem: You are working for a travel agency. You want to track and compare the prices for four of your customers' favorite destinations using the popular 5-Day Packages. Your worksheet will show the packages in the first column and the package prices for the four destinations in the other columns, as shown in Table E1A - 1. Instructions: Perform the tasks below to design and create the Vacation Package Analysis Workbook. Use the data provided in Table E1A - 1. 1. Using the data in Table ElA - 1, create the worksheet shown in Figure E1A - 1. 2. Use the Metropolitan Theme (Or any theme you like). 3. Use the Sum button to create the total revenue for each of the four vacation spots and the totals for each of the four vacation packages. Format the worksheet title, VACATION PACKAGE ANALYSIS, as Heading 1 style, and centered across columns A through F. 4. 5. Format the range A2:F8 using the Heading 3 cell style. Use appropriate styles (comma style and curreney style) to format the…

The owner of Maxwell's Coffee and Cakes wants to start selling products that feature her coffee shop's logo. Her first product will be backpacks which she will sell for $137.44 each. She can buy the backpacks for $21.97 and have them customized for $10.92 apiece. There is a one-time set up charge of $1,525.15 for customization. In order for the project to go forward, she needs to show a $14,718.68 profit. How many backpacks will she have to sell in order for this project to be acceptable? Round to the nearest whole number.