Table J.17 A Company Must Take on Seven New Projects. Each Project

Multiple Choice

Table J.17
A company must take on seven new projects. Each project has a planning stage and a design stage, and the planning stage must be completed before the design stage can begin. Also, two project teams are available to work on these projects: Team 1 works only on planning stages of projects, and Team 2 works only on design stages of projects. The times to complete the project stage, in days, are shown in the following table.

-Using the information in Table J.17 and Johnson's rule, what is the makespan for these seven jobs?

A) 58 days or greater
B) greater than or equal to 55 days but less than 58 days
C) greater than or equal to 52 days but less than 55 days
D) less than 52 days