Precedence relationships among the project activities

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You are the team leader for a project. Precedence relationships among the project activities and activity durations are given in the following table

Activity	Predecessor(S)	Duration(Days)
A	None	3
B	A	5
C	A	4
D	B, C	2
E	B, C	4
F	E	1

Suppose activity C is begun at early as possible but actually takes 5 days to complete, while all other activities require their specified amounts of time How would this affect the duration of the ovecal project?

A. This underestimation will increase the expected duration of the overall project by 1 day

E. Activity C's increased duration should not affect the duration of the overall project

C. Cannot be determined from the information given

D. This underestimation will decrease the expected duration of the overall project by 1 day

E. Activity C's increased duration would not affect the duration of the overall project d and only d activity D is begun earlier than its late start time

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