Pooler Corporation Is Working on Its Direct Labor Budget for the Next

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Multiple Choice

Pooler Corporation is working on its direct labor budget for the next two months. Each unit of output requires 0.60 direct labor-hours. The direct labor rate is $9.00 per direct labor-hour. The production budget calls for producing 6,800 units in April and 6,600 units in May. If the direct labor work force is fully adjusted to the total direct labor-hours needed each month, what would be the total combined direct labor cost for the two months?

• A) $72,850
• B) $73,025
• C) $72,360
• D) $72,535

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Definitions:

Lynchings

Extrajudicial killings predominantly targeting African Americans, carried out by mobs with the intent of instilling fear and exerting racial control, prominent in the US South from the late 19th to mid-20th century.

Lynch Violence

Extrajudicial killings, primarily by hanging, often racially motivated and used as a tool of terror and suppression against African Americans, especially in the southern United States.

Sexual Conduct

Refers to behaviors or activities related to sexual actions and interactions between individuals.

Southern White Mobs

Groups of white individuals in the Southern United States who, especially during the 19th and early 20th centuries, participated in acts of racial violence and lynching against African Americans.