A Company Incurs $1,200,000 of Overhead Each Year in Three

question 20

Multiple Choice

A company incurs $1,200,000 of overhead each year in three departments, Processing, Packaging, and Testing.The company performs 800 processing transactions, 200,000 packaging transactions, and 2,000 tests per year in producing 400,000 drums of oil and 600,000 drums of sludge.The following data are available: $$\begin{array} { c c c } \text { Department } & \text { Estimated use of Driver } & \text { Cost } \\\hline \text { Processing } & 800 & \$ 500,000 \\\text { Packaging } & 200,000 & 500,000 \\\text { Testing } & 2,000 & 200,000\end{array}$$ Production information for oil is as follows:
$$\begin{array} { l c } \underline{\text { Department }} &\underline{ \text { Estimated use of Driver }} \\\text { Processing } & 300 \\\text { Packaging } & 120,000 \\\text { Testing } & 1,600\end{array}$$ Calculate the amount of overhead assigned to oil.

• A)$600,000
• B)$647,500
• C)$552,500
• D)$460,000

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