The Following Data Relate to Product No

question 65

Multiple Choice

The following data relate to product no. 89 of Des Moines Corporation:
Direct material standard: 3 square feet at $2.50 per square foot
Direct material purchased: 30,000 square feet at $2.60 per square foot
Direct material consumed: 29,200 square feet
Manufacturing activity: 9,600 units completed
Assume that the company computes variances at the earliest point in time.
The direct-material quantity variance is:

• A) $1,000F.
• B) $1,000U.
• C) $1,040F.
• D) $1,040U.
• E) $2,000F.

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Definitions:

SSE

Stands for the Sum of Squared Errors, a measure used in statistics to describe the discrepancy between the data and an estimation model.

Critical Value

A point on the scale of the test statistic beyond which the null hypothesis is rejected.

Independent Variables

Variables in an experiment or model that are manipulated or changed to assess their effect on dependent variables.

Degrees Of Freedom

A parameter of the t distribution. When the t distribution is used in the computation of an interval estimate of a population mean, the appropriate t distribution has n − 1 degrees of freedom, where n is the size of the sample.