Question

Petraeus Fabrication Company has provided the following information for the year 2012:

Actual manufacturing overhead costs incurred $268,000

Manufacturing overhead costs allocated to production $259,200

Actual direct materials cost $800,000

Actual direct labor cost $144,000

Actual direct labor hours 3,200 direct labor hours

Actual machine hours 10,900 machine hours

Based on the above information, what was Petraeus's allocation rate? (Hint: for this type of problem, the "trial and error" method may be used.)

A) $95 per direct labor hour

B) 180% of direct labor cost

C) $8.50 per machine hour

D) 12% of direct materials cost

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