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A. Activity on Node (AON) network diagram done on Photoshop, Jpeg format. And all the
numbers are on days. Example: 90 days, 115 days, 129 days, etc.

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B. Table representing the earliest start, earliest finish, latest start, latest finish and critical path of
each activity of the project network.

Earliest Start Latest start Critical

Activity (Days) Earliest Finish(Days) (Days) Latest Finish (Days) Path
A 0 90 0 90 YES
B 90 105 95 110 NO
C 105 110 110 115 NO
D 129 149 129 149 YES
E 149 170 173 194 NO
F 90 115 90 115 YES
G 115 129 115 129 YES
H 149 177 166 194 NO
I 90 120 119 149 NO
J 149 194 149 194 YES

The critical path is A-F-G-D-J for this project.

C. As per Management, we have to crash time for 8 days earlier.

The critical path is A-F-G-D-J, cheapest crash cost on the critical path is activity G which is
$112 and we crash G first by 1 day from 14 days to 13 days.

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The critical path still remains the same A-F-G-D-J but the length of the critical path is decreased by 1day.
The next cheapest activity on the critical path is D and we crash it for 1 day form 20 days to 19 days.

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Still no changes in the critical path, we have to crash one more time the remaining smallest crash cost
which is F $375, from 25 to 24 days.

The Critical path is still A-F-G-D-J. The next smallest crash cost is J $1530. We cash J for 1 day from 45 to
44.

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The critical path is still the same one as before. The last one left is A so, we crash it by 1 day from 90 to
89.

For the 6th time crashing we have to crash G again because there are no other left on critical path, we
crash G again for a day from 13 to 12 days.

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For the 7th time, we have to crash D again from 19 to 18 days.

For the final day we now crash F for a day from 24 to 23

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After crashing the activity for 8 days from total 194 days to 186 days we still can’t find another critical
path. So, the additional cost would be

1. Crashing G cost $ 21 per day.

2. Crashing D cost$ 10 per day.
3. Crashing F cost $ 41.7 per day.
4. Crashing J cost $ 45 per day.
5. Crashing A cost $ 54 per day.
6. Crashing G again cost $21
7. Crashing D again $10
8. Crashing F again $41.7

Total we crash for 8 days so, the total cost

= 21+10+41.7+45+54+21+10+41.7

= $244.4.

$244.4 additional cost will be added to bring the computer 8 days earlier.

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