Balcom Enterprises Is Planning to Introduce a New Product That

question 120

Multiple Choice

Balcom Enterprises is planning to introduce a new product that will sell for $110 a unit.Manufacturing cost estimates for 20,000 units for the first year of production are: • Direct materials $1,000,000
• Direct labor $720,000 (based on $18 per hour × 40,000 hours)
Although overhead has not be estimated for the new product,monthly data for Balcom's total production for the last two years has been analyzed using simple linear regression.The analysis results are as follows:

$$\begin{array} { | l | l | } \hline \text { Dependent wariable } & \text { Factory overhead costs } \\\hline \text { Independent variable } & \text { Direct labor hours } \\\hline \text { Intercept } & \$ 120,000 \\\hline \text { Coefficient on independent } & \$ 5.00 \\\text { variable } & \\\hline \text { Coefticient of correlation } & 0.911\\\hline \text { R } ^ { 2 } & 0.814\\\hline\end{array}$$
Based on this information,what percentage of the variation in overhead costs is explained by the independent variable?

• A) 24%
• B) 81.4%
• C) 91.1 %
• D) 9.7%

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