A marketing firm is planning to conduct a survey of a segment of the potential product audience for one of its customers. The planning process for preparing to conduct the survey consists of six activities, with precedence relationships and activity time estimates as follows:

Activity Activity Description Activity Predecessor Time Estimate

(days)

a Determine survey objectives — 3 b Select and hire personnel a 3 c Design questionnaire a 5 d Train personnel

b, c 4 e Select target audience c 3 f Make personnel assignments

d, e 2

a. Determine all paths through the network from node a to node f and the duration of each. Also indicate the critical path.

b. Determine the earliest and latest activity start and finish times.

c. Determine the slack for each activity.

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