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George Lewis Program/Project Manager| DXC Technology Company Heredia, Costa Rica
A Project Team has a performance rate in which half of the assigned tasks are completed each day.

If at any given moment of the day the PM asks the project team for a status of the 600 tasks assigned, how many remaining tasks would they have after four days of work?
(the calculation is done from the moment in time the PM is checking the status report)

A) 300 tasks in the log
B) 150 tasks in the log
C) 37,5 days in the log
D) no tasks remaining in the log
E) none of the answers above
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Sandeep Kumar MK PM - Infrastructure Services| MPHASIS LTD Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
c)
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1 reply by George Lewis
Jun 03, 2018 8:27 AM
George Lewis
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Sandeep - C is not the correct answer.

But, you can still try to answer the number of remaining working days.
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Eric Simms Senior Program Manager Baltimore, Maryland, United States
C).
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1 reply by George Lewis
Jun 03, 2018 8:27 AM
George Lewis
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Eric - C is not the correct answer.

But, you can still try to answer the number of remaining working days.
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Rami Kaibni
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Senior Projects Manager | Field & Marten Associates New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
I ended up with C too considering the total work days are 4.
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1 reply by George Lewis
Jun 03, 2018 8:31 AM
George Lewis
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Rami - C is not the correct answer.

Also, the number of total working days is not 4.

But, you can still try to answer the number of remaining working days.

I think this is a nice exercise seems obvious at the very beginning.
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George Lewis Program/Project Manager| DXC Technology Company Heredia, Costa Rica
any other answer?
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George Lewis Program/Project Manager| DXC Technology Company Heredia, Costa Rica
Remember there are 600 tasks assigned
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Rodrigo Gonzalez Parra Project Manager| Procedata Bogota, Colombia
C)
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Jun 03, 2018 8:32 AM
George Lewis
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Rodrigo, try again, also try to answer the number of remaining working days.
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George Lewis Program/Project Manager| DXC Technology Company Heredia, Costa Rica
Correct answer is E
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George Lewis Program/Project Manager| DXC Technology Company Heredia, Costa Rica
Anyone realizes why?
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Vincent Guerard Coach - Trainer - Speaker - Advisor| Freelance Mont-Royal, Quebec, Canada
37,5 task in the log would be the answer, that is not C)
And 5 days left to finish
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George Lewis Program/Project Manager| DXC Technology Company Heredia, Costa Rica
Vincent - you've got it 50% correct, 37,5 tasks remaining, but not sure about the number of days remaining.

Check, that part...
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