As a Foreign Service Officer you are responsible for determining the cumulative effect of several delays in a project. You have access only to the project's bar chart. Which of the following outcomes can be predicted?
A)The cumulative delay cannot be calculated by reviewing only the bar chart because bar charts do not show relationships among activities
B)The cumulative delay is simply the sum of the individual activity delays
C)The cumulative delay can be calculated by adding up the delays in the critical activities, only
D)The cumulative delay cannot be calculated by reviewing only the bar chart because bar charts do not show the duration of all activities

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CBar charts (or Gantt charts) show the start and end dates of individual activities but do not illustrate the dependencies between activities. Therefore, the cumulative delay cannot be calculated just by looking at the bar chart, as it does not show relationships among activities (A). However, if you identify which activities are critical (those that directly affect the project's finish date), you can calculate the cumulative delay by focusing on these activities (C), since delays in critical activities directly impact the project's overall timeline.

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