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Chapter B, Problem 39P
Bowman Builders manufactures steel storage sheds for commercial use. Joe Bowman, president of Bowman Builders, is contemplating producing sheds for home use. The activities necessary to build an experimental model and related data are given in Table B.2.
- a. What is the project normal time completion date? (See Chapter 3 for a review of project management.)
- b. Formulate an LP problem to crash this project to 10 weeks.
TABLE B.2 Data for Problem B.29
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