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GATE Operations Research: Network flow models, PERT and CPM – Previous Year Questions

2 GATE previous year questions on Network flow models, PERT and CPM (Operations Research, Mechanical Engineering) with answers and explanations, from every paper.

  1. GATE 2025 ME Q65 (2 marks, Numerical answer) – A project involves eight activities with the precedence relationship and duration as shown in the table below. The slack for the activity D is hours…
  2. GATE 2026 ME Q65 (2 marks, Numerical answer) – The activities of a PERT network and their corresponding activity time estimates (in weeks) i.e., optimistic (t o), most likely (t m), and pessimistic…