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:

a$)$ Based on the given information regarding the activities for the project, the project completion date $=14$ 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.