The corresponding mean critical path provides an estimate that the project will finish in 100 weeks. However, management understands well that the high variability of activity durations means that the actual duration of the project may be much longer. Therefore, the decision is made to require that the estimated project duration based on means (as used throughout the CPM analysis) must not exceed 92 weeks.

(a) Formulate a linear programming model for this problem.

C

(b) Use Excel to solve the problem.

C

(c) Use another software option to solve the problem.