Question - Sweeten Company had no jobs in progress at the beginning of March and no beginning inventories. The company has two manufacturing departments-Molding and Fabrication It started, completed, and sold only two jobs during March- Job P and Job Q. The following additional information is available for the company as a whole and for Jobs P and Q (all data and questions relate to the month of March):
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Molding
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Fabrication
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Total
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Estimated total machine-hours used
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2,500
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1,500
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4,000
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Estimated total fixed manufacturing overhead
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$12,250
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$16,350
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$28,600
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Estimated variable manufacturing overhead per machine-hour
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$2.30
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$3.10
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Job P
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Job Q
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Direct materials
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$22,000
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$12,500
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Direct labor cost
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$28,200
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$11,100
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Actual machine-hours used:
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Molding
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2,600
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1,700
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Fabrication
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1,500
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1,800
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Total
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4,100
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3,500
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Sweeten Company had no underapplied or overapplied manufacturing overhead costs during the month.
Required: For question, assume that Sweeten Company uses a plant wide predetermined overhead rate with machine-hours as the allocation base.
What was the Company's plantwide predetermined overhead rate?