Question

You were asked to provide a report on performance of the project. The project is composed of 6 phases with each phase lasting for 2 weeks and an approved budget of $10,000 for the entire project. You are now at end of week 6. At this point you've spent exactly half your budget and the work that was planned for phases 1, 2, and 3 has been completed.
A. Project is on time and on budget
B. The project is on time, but we cannot determine whether the project is on budget
C. The project is on budget, but we cannot determine whether the project is on time
D. It's impossible to tell anything

Answer 1

Answer:

Option B. The project is on time, but we cannot determine whether the project is on budget

Explanation:

Each of the phase takes 2 weeks and $100,000 and at the end of the week 6 we can say that 3 phases of the project have been completed. Therefore, the task of completing 3rd phase is within time (3*2=6), which means that the project is on time.

But here we can't tell which phase exceeded the budget and which didn't exceeded the budget. So this can not be estimated here because of lack of information. Hence we can say that we are unable to form opinion on whether the project was on budget or not.