Maintenance Costs at a Tierce Corporation Factory Are Listed Below

question 55

Multiple Choice

Maintenance costs at a Tierce Corporation factory are listed below: Management believes that maintenance cost is a mixed cost that depends on machine-hours. Using the high-low method to estimate the variable and fixed components of this cost, these estimates would be closest to:

• A)$14.54 per machine-hour; $52,671 per month
• B)$9.27 per machine-hour; $19,076 per month
• C)$0.11 per machine-hour; $52,591 per month
• D)$9.27 per machine-hour; $19,071 per month

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