1. It is said that a delay in critical path activity will delay the project, while a delay in a noncritical path activity will not necessarily delay the project. Explain the need to specify "not necessarily."
2. Why does a project necessarily have to possess some form of deadline? What is the implication of a project without a deadline?
3. Task C has two immediate predecessors, tasks A and B. Task A has an early finish time of three days, and task B has an early finish time of five days. Task C is two days long. What is the early finish time of task C?
4. Task E has an early start time of three days and an early finish time of five days, while it also has a late start time of ten days and a late finish time of 12 days from now. What is the slack in task E?