Answer the Following Question(s)using the Information Below

question 59

Multiple Choice

Answer the following question(s) using the information below.
Wallace Printing has contracts to complete weekly supplements required by forty-six customers.For the year 2016,manufacturing overhead cost estimates total $420,000 for an annual production capacity of 10 million pages.
For 2016 Wallace Printing decided to evaluate the use of additional cost pools.After analyzing manufacturing overhead costs,it was determined that number of design changes,setups,and inspections are the primary manufacturing overhead cost drivers.The following information was gathered during the analysis:
During 2016,two customers,Wayward Insurance and Hapless Systems,are expected to use the following printing services:

-Using pages printed as the only overhead cost driver,what is the manufacturing overhead cost estimate for Hapless Systems during 2016?

• A)$19,000
• B)$3,800
• C)$1,900
• D)$2,520
• E)$3,192

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