The variance for a project’s duration is given by ______.

a. the sum of the variances for all its activities
b. the sum of the variances for all its critical activities
c. the sum of the standard deviations for all its activities
d. the sum of the standard deviations for all its critical activities


b. the sum of the variances for all its critical activities

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