Calculating total cost of crashing the project

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Three activities are candidates for crashing on a project network for a large computer installation (all of course are critical). Activity details are in the following table:

Normal Crash Normal Total Cost Immediate
Activity Time(Days) Time(Days) Cost W/ Crashing Predecessor(s)
A 7 6 $4,500 $5,000 ______
B 4 2 $1,400 $3,100 A
C 11 9 $4,600 $6,800 B

1)Activity that should be crashed first to reducethe project duration by 1 day is __A???_____.

2)Activity that should be crashed next to reduce the project duration by one additional day is __B???________.

3)Total cost of crashing the project by 2 days =$_____________.

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