Which of the following statements regarding time-cost tradeoffs in CPM networks is FALSE?
A) Crashing shortens project duration by assigning more resources to critical tasks.
B) Crashing sometimes has the reverse result of lengthening the project duration.
C) Crashing must consider the impact of crashing an activity on all paths in the network.
D) Activities not on the critical path can become critical after crashing takes place.
E) A negative crash cost per period would imply that either crashing is cheaper than not crashing or that the crash time was slower than the normal time.

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EB) Crashing is designed to shorten project duration, not lengthen it. If applied correctly, crashing should not result in a longer project duration. It involves allocating additional resources to critical tasks to complete them faster, not slower.E) A negative crash cost per period would not make sense in the context of project management, as it would imply that crashing is both cheaper and slower than not crashing, which contradicts the purpose of crashing (to reduce time at an additional cost).

Which of the Following Statements Regarding Time-Cost Tradeoffs in CPM