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The Alpina Museum plans to organize a thematic exhibition on international cuisine. The organizer fo

Question: The Alpina Museum plans to organize a thematic exhibition on international cuisine. The organizer for this exhibition has designed a network diagram indicating the preparation steps for the exhibition. The legend at the bottom of the diagram refers to the format used to specify the earliest start, earliest finish, latest finish, and latest start times for each preparation step.

Spring 2012 Problem Set H

BUSI 403 Due: Tuesday Apr. 17

After reading the proposed plan, the senior manager requested to crash the duration of the whole preparation process by 2 months. The following table lists the steps that can be crashed and the corresponding costs.

Step	Duration (months)	Crash cost / month	Possible crash (months)
A	3	300	2
B	4	600	1
C	6	400	1
D	3	200	2
E	2	150	1
F	8	400	2
G	7	100	1
H	4	200	1

a. Please find the most economical way to shorten the duration of preparation by 2 months. What is the incremental cost to complete the project 2 months earlier?

b. What is (are) the critical path(s) after crashing the duration of preparation?

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