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Refer to the following paragraph to answer the questions below.
The Young Children's Charity would like to provide an accurate estimate of how much it costs to raise a child between the ages of 2 and 12 for its fund raising campaign. They contracted with you to find out how much households spent on raising a child in 1996. They gave you a list all 400,000 residential telephone customers in the area they will operate the campaign. You sampled every 400th address on the list. The Charity will have a survey company contact each household sampled and ask whether or not there is a child between 2 and 12 years of age living in the household. If there is, they will ask other questions and record the total amount spent raising a child during 1996.
-In this study, each address of a telephone customer is your

Definitions:

Direct Labor Payroll

The total cost of wages and benefits paid to employees who are directly involved in the production of goods or delivery of services.

Predetermined Overhead Rate

An estimated rate used to allocate manufacturing overhead costs to individual products or job orders based on a predetermined base, such as labor hours or machine hours.

Labor Quantity Variance

This refers to the difference between the expected amount of labor hours necessary to produce a good or service and the actual hours used, measured in financial terms.

Labor Rate Variance

The difference between the actual cost of labor and the expected (or standard) cost, used as a measure to control and optimize labor expenses.