Korsak Corporation Is a Service Company That Measures Its Output

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Multiple Choice

Korsak Corporation is a service company that measures its output by the number of customers served. The company has provided the following fixed and variable cost estimates that it uses for budgeting purposes. The planning budget for October was based on serving 23 customers, but a total of 19 customers were actually served during October.The activity variance for revenue for October would have been closest to:

• A) $22,000 U
• B) $20,400 U
• C) $22,000 F
• D) $20,400 F

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Inferential Statistics

A branch of statistics that allows one to make predictions or inferences about a population based on a sample of data.

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A statistical measure that identifies a single value as representative of an entire distribution, commonly using the mean, median, or mode.

Mean

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