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Kepple Manufacturing Currently Uses a Traditional Costing System

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Kepple Manufacturing currently uses a traditional costing system. The company allocates overhead to its two products, Zips and Dees, using a predetermined manufacturing overhead rate based on direct labor hours. Here is data related to the company's two products: Information about the company's estimated manufacturing overhead for the year follows:
Total estimated direct labor hours for the company for the year are 102,500 hours.
The company is evaluating whether it should use an activity-based costing system in place of its traditional costing system. Additional information about production needed for the activity-based costing system follows:
The amount of manufacturing overhead that would be allocated to one unit of Zips using the traditional costing system would be closest to (Round all answers to two decimal places.)

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