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- Calculate the Critical Ratios (CR): (Enter all responses rounded to two decimal places.) Job CR 1 enter your response here Part 2 2 enter your response here Part 3 3 enter your response here Part 4 4 enter your response here Part 5 5 enter your response here Part 6 Using the Critical Ratio (CR) scheduling rule for sequencing the jobs, the order is: Sequence Job 1 ▼ 4 5 3 1 2 Part 7 2 ▼ 2 1 5 3 4 Part 8 3 ▼ 5 4 2 3 1 Part 9 4 ▼ 1 3 2 5 4 Part 10 5 ▼ 5 4 1 3 2 ... Question content area right Part 1 The following jobs are waiting to be processed at Jeremy LaMontagne's machine center. Today is day 250. Job Date Job Received Due Date Duration (days) 1 215 260 30 2 220 290 20 3 225…The City Commission of Nashville has decided to build a botanical garden and picnic area in the heart of the city for the recreation of its aitizens. The precedence table for all the activities required to construct this area successfuly is as follows Time Code Description (hrs) Immediate Predecessor(a) Find location; determine resource requirements Requisition of lumber and sand Dig and grade Saw lumber into appropriate sizes Position lumber in correct locations Nail lumber together Put sand in and under the 25 None 55 A 105 25 20 15 20 equipment Put dirt around the equipment 10 Put grass all over the garden, 3D landscape, paint 25 G.H Refer to the legend for the activity that corresponds to each code. Using the line drawing tool, draw a Ganit chart for activites E trough i of the project. Click the graph, choose a tool in the palette and folow the instructions to create your graph. Remaininn: 02:16 49 CIf the cycle time is 65.4 seconds and A is assigned as the first task in Workstation #1, what is the idle time after assigning task A? Task Task Time (seconds) Tasks That Must Precede Other Tasks Number of Following Tasks A 28 - 7 B 13 - 8 C 35 B 7 D 11 A 6 E 20 C 6 F 6 D, E 5 G 23 F 3 H 25 F 2 I 37 G 1 J 11 G, H 1 K 27 I, J 0 Total 236 a. 26.9 minutes b. 37.4 seconds c. 28.5 seconds d. 31.6 seconds e. 57.6 seconds