You Run a Software Development Business in Toronto

Multiple Choice

You run a software development business in Toronto. You are offered a chance to bid on a government contract that you estimate will require 600 000 lines of code, deliverable in one year. You have developed a model: Effort = 3.0(KLOC) 1.2 to predict the effort, in programmer-months, required to complete a job, where `KLOC' stands for `thousands of lines of code'. On the basis of this model, how many programmers should you assign to work on the project?

A) 150
B) 450
C) 540
D) 1 800
E) 6 500