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Business a level question help!

This is from the 2021 AQA past paper:
16.3)The business has learned that activity E will now take 7 days to complete.
Given this change, state the activities on the critical path. Answer: BEG
Obviously I can upload a picture of the network but can someone tell how you go about getting the answer. Tysmmm in advance
Original post by ibegyoushutup
This is from the 2021 AQA past paper:
16.3)The business has learned that activity E will now take 7 days to complete.
Given this change, state the activities on the critical path. Answer: BEG
Obviously I can upload a picture of the network but can someone tell how you go about getting the answer. Tysmmm in advance


Hi,
So basically when activity E only took 4 days, ACF was the critical path as this was the longest way ( 16 days). However, now that activity E is now 7 days, the longest route is BEG as this will take 18 days, and consequently, the EST and LFT on the last node will change to 18 days too.
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Original post by Carrotsroom
Hi,
So basically when activity E only took 4 days, ACF was the critical path as this was the longest way ( 16 days). However, now that activity E is now 7 days, the longest route is BEG as this will take 18 days, and consequently, the EST and LFT on the last node will change to 18 days too.


aaahhh! makes so much sense now thank youu!! just required me to know what critical path really meant!

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