In PERT, the acceptance of a Beta distribution for activity completion times and the presence of a sufficient number of activities, lead to the assumption of a normal distribution of possible completion times for the overall project.

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This assumption is true. The Central Limit Theorem allows for the aggregation of normally distributed activity completion times to a normally distributed overall project completion time.

In PERT, the Acceptance of a Beta Distribution for Activity