Question - Blacken Company manufactures motorcycles. The company's management accountant wants to calculate the fixed and variable costs associated with utility cost incurred by the factory. Data for the past five months were collected.
|
Month
|
Utility cost
|
Machine hours
|
|
March
|
$30,255
|
2,200
|
|
April
|
32,750
|
2,525
|
|
May
|
34,712
|
2,710
|
|
June
|
31,850
|
2,410
|
|
July
|
30,720
|
2,290
|
Using a regression program, the forecasted utility cost at 2,300 machine hours (rounded to the nearest dollar) is
a. $25,945.
b. $10,631.
c. $30,940.
d. $37,116.