Quantitative Techniques

Please answer Letters: B and E

Anational chain of service station wishes to open in a town close to motorway 19 . The tasks involved from the day it was decided to open this site and the times taken to complete each task, together with the respective activity times are given in the following table. a. Draw up a network diagram for the company. [ 8 marks] b. Show the activity schedule (ES, EF, LS and LS) on your diagram. [5 marks] c. Calculate the slack in a table. C. ES [5 marks] d. Determine and state the critical path for the project and state its duration. ACDFGJk [3 marks] e. Give a brief explanation of how the project given above differs from a P. E. R. T. project. [4 marks]