SafeWork Technology manufactures medical textiles and has experienced huge and growing demand in the past two years. To cope with this increased demand, the company plans to implement several expansion projects. One of these projects involves building a new factory in NSW. After several meetings, nine major expansion activities have been identified, and the company plans to assign project managers to support these activities. People involved in the expansion were interviewed to gather information for the following table:

(a) Which activities have slack?

(b) Using your answer to (a), explain the concept of shared slack, and where it does/does not exist for this project.

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