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169) Deloria Corporation has two production departments, Forming and Assembly. The
company uses a job-order costing system and computes a predetermined overhead rate in each
production department. The Forming Department’s predetermined overhead rate is based on
machine-hours and the Assembly Department’s predetermined overhead rate is based on direct
labor-hours. At the beginning of the current year, the company had made the following
estimates:
Total fixed manufacturing overhead cost
Variable manufacturing overhead per machine-hour
Variable manufacturing overhead per direct labor-hour
During the current month the company started and finished Job T288. The following data were
recorded for this job:
The predetermined overhead rate for the Assembly Department is closest to:
A) $3.00 per direct labor-hour
B) $12.70 per direct labor-hour
C) $9.70 per direct labor-hour
D) $5.35 per direct labor-hour