Berends Corporation Makes a Product with the Following Standard Costs

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Multiple Choice

Berends Corporation makes a product with the following standard costs: The company reported the following results concerning this product in April. The company applies variable overhead on the basis of direct labor-hours.The direct materials purchases variance is computed when the materials are purchased. The labor rate variance for April is:

• A)$4,224 F
• B)$4,224 U
• C)$4,096 U
• D)$4,096 F

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Definitions:

Standard Normal Curve

A specific instance of a normally distributed curve where the mean is 0 and the standard deviation is 1.

Percentile

A statistical measure indicating the value below which a given percentage of observations in a group of observations fall.

Right-Skewed

Describes a distribution of data where the tail on the right side of the histogram is longer or fatter than the left side, indicating that the mean and median are greater than the mode.

Normal Probability Distribution

A bell-shaped curve distribution characterized by its mean and standard deviation, with data symmetrically distributed around the mean.