ASSIGNMENT 1 DATE 09/09/2015

QUESTION 1

i. What is the meaning of activity slack times and how are they computed?
ii. Explain why the project manager should monitor the progress of activities with small slack
times.
iii. Why is it important in project management to identify and monitor the critical activities?
iv. Why must all immediate predecessor activities be considered when determining the activity’s
earliest start time?
v. Why must all immediate successor activities be considered when finding the activity’s latest
finish time?
vi. What is project crashing and how can it be done manually?
vii. Provide some of the reasons for a company to consider project crashing.

QUESTION 2

Muchaneta is in charge of planning and coordinating

next year end’s sales management training program for her
company. He has listed the following activity information for
this project:

QUESTION 3

Tawanda has done more detailed planning for this project and so now has the following
expanded activity list:
(a) Construct the project network for this project
(b) Find all the paths and path lengths through this project network. Which of these paths is a
critical path?
(c) Find the earliest start time and earliest finish time for each activity.
(d) Find the latest start time and latest finish time for each activity.
(e) Find the slack for each activity. Which of the paths is a critical path?

QUESTION 4
You and several friends are about to prepare a lasgna dinner.
The tasks to be performed, their immediate predecessors, and
their estimated durations are as follows:

(a) Construct the project network for preparing this dinner.

(b) Find all the paths and path lengths through this project network. Which of these paths is a
critical path?
(c) Find the earliest start time and earliest finish time for each activity.
(d) Find the latest start time and latest finish time for each activity.
(e) Find the slack for each activity. Which of the paths is a critical path?

QUESTION 5

You are given the following information about a project consisting of six activities:

(a) Construct the project network for this project.

(b) Find the earliest times, latest times, and slack for each activity. Which of the paths is a
critical path?
(c) If all other activities take the estimated amount of time, what is the maximum duration of
activity D without delaying the completion of the project?
ASSIGNMENT 2

QUESTION 1
A jewelry designer makes necklaces and earrings each week to sell at a local boutique.
The boutique will buy between 10 and 40 necklaces each week.

Based on last month’s sales, each week the boutique bought at least twice the number of earrings
as necklaces from the designer.

The designer cannot make more than 50 pieces of jewelry per week.

If the necklaces make the designer a profit of $25 each piece and the earrings make a profit of
$10 each piece, how many necklaces and how many earrings should the designer sell to the
boutique to maximize her profit?

QUESTION 2
An oil refinery produces two products: jet fuel and gasoline. The profit for the refinery is
$0.10 per barrel for jet fuel and $0.20 per barrel for gasoline. The following conditions
must be met.

a. Only 10,000 barrels of crude oil are available for processing.

b. The refinery has a government contract to produce at least 1,000 barrels of jet fuel.
c. The refinery has a private contract to produce at least 2,000 barrels of gasoline.
d. Both products are shipped in trucks, the delivery capacity of the truck fleet is
180,000 barrel-km.
e. The jet fuel is delivered to an airport 10 km from the refinery.
f. The gasoline is transported 30 km to the distributor.
How much of each product should be produced for maximum profit?

QUESTION 3
A company produces 2 types of hats. Each hat of the I type requires twice as much as labor time
as the II type. The company can produce a total of 500 hats a day. The market limits daily sales
of I and II types to 150 and 250 hats. Assuming that the profit per hat are $8 for type A and $5
for type B. Formulate a LPP models in order to determine the number of hats to be produced of
each type so as to maximize the profit.

QUESTION 4
A manufacturer of furniture makes two products – chairs and tables. Processing of this product is
done on two machines A and B. A chair requires 2 hours on machine A and 6 hours on machine
B. A table requires 5 hours on machine A and no time on machine B. There are 16 hours of time
per day available on machine A and 30 hours on machine B. Profit gained by the manufacturer
from a chair and a table is $ 2 and $ 10 respectively. What should be the daily production of each
of two products?

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