The Management of Rutledge Corporation Would Like to Better Understand

question 11

Essay

The management of Rutledge Corporation would like to better understand the behavior of the company's warranty costs. Those costs are listed below for a number of recent months:
Management believes that warranty cost is a mixed cost that depends on the number of product returns.
Required:
Estimate the variable cost per product return and the fixed cost per month using the least-squares regression method.

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