Please use the attached excel file for some of the exam questions.  The excel file includes tabs that provide info/data to answer several of the following exam questions. Attached Excel file—–>midterm exam file for students.xlsx  Note to ProctorU….use of the attached Excel file is allowable for use by students on the exam. Note to Students…..please include a response in the question 1 text box to avoid receiving a question unanswered message when submitting the exam. Any response will work…a single word, your name, etc. Some of the exam questions are autograded.  Please take time – if time permits – to confirm your calculations/answers.

Use the following task/activity durations and the project network in the tab named NCP – ! in the excel file provided in question 1 to answer the following question. What is project duration in days? Task durations are number of days. Task A duration… [adur] Task B duration… [bdur] Task C duration… [cdur] Task D duration…. [ddur] Task E duration… [edur] Task F duration… [fdur]  Info for students – Note that the project in the excel file’s tab NCP – 1 and the task durations in question 2 are used in the questions 3, 4, and 5.

This question is a continuation of question 2. Use the task durations in question 2 and the project in the tab named NCP – ! in the excel file provided in question 1 to answer the followng question. The total slack for task B is how many days? (Enter answer in whole numbers.  If total slack is a fraction or decimal. round the answer to the nearest whole number.) [BLANK-1]

The policy environment

To the extent that there are “biases” in most news outlets, these biases are best attributed to:

Bureaucracy means

Of the following forms of political participation in the United States, in which form do Americans most often engage?

Anecdotal evidence is based on

The laws that are made when judges and courts make decisions are called _____________

Where does the greatest amount agenda setting power in Congress reside?