McGee Carpet and Trim installs carpets in commercial offices. Andrea McGee has been very concerned with the amount of time it took to complete several recent jobs. Some of her workers are very unreliable. A list of activities and their optimistic completion time the most likely completion time and the pessimistic completion time (all in days) for a new contract are provided in a given table. Following are the activities that are required to install the carpets in the offices:
Activity 2 starts immediately after Activity 1. Activity 3 Activity 4 and Activity 5 start concurrently after Activity 2. Activity 6 does not start until after Activity 3 Activity 4 and Activity 5 are completed. The carpet installation project is complete after Activity 7 is completed. If OT = Optimistic Time MT = Most Likely Time and PT = Pessimistic Time use a Program Evaluation Review Estimate (PERT) to compute the statistical time for each activity as in the following table:
You must also do the following: