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Kimpel Products makes pizza ovens for commercial use. James Kimpel, CEO, is contemplating producing smaller ovens for use in high school and college kitchens. The activities necessary to build an experimental model and related data are listed in the following table: Activity Normal Time Crash Time Normal (weeks) (weeks) Cost $1,200 $2,100 $350 $1.500 $950 $4,250 $1.800 Total Cost with Crashing Immediate Predecessor(s) $1,800 $2.900 $350 $1.780 $1.175 $5.450 $2.500 DE a) Based on the given information regarding the activities for the project, the project completion date weeks b) To reduce the duration of the project to 10 weeks at the least cost, the following is the order of what needs to be followed while crashing the activities: The first activity to crash is by 2 weeks at a per week crashing cost of dollars Next, one should crash activity and activity by 2 weeks for an additional total per week crashing cost of dollars. c) Now requirements are to reduce the project to 7 weeks. Continuing to crash the activities from 10 weeks based on the above crashing already completed the following is the order for crashing: Next activity to crash in order is by 2 weeks at a per week crashing cost of dollars Next, one should crash activity and activity E by 1 week at a total per week crashing cost of dollars. Total cost of crashing the project to 7 weeks = dollars