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The Extruded Plastics Company distributes overhead to each of its six departments according to the ratio of total overhead to the total direct labor costs. During January, the total overhead for the factory was 20,000;thetotaldirectlaborcost20,000; the total direct labor cost 140,000. Find the ratio to be applied to all departments. Then find the amount to be charged to the Quality Control Department whose direct labor costs for the month were $16,000.
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The Extruded Plastics Company distributes overhead to each of its six departments according to the ratio of total overhead to the total direct labor costs. During January, the total overhead for the factory was 20,000;thetotaldirectlaborcost140,000. Find the ratio to be applied to all departments. Then find the amount to be charged to the Quality Control Department whose direct labor costs for the month were $16,000.
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The Extruded Plastics Company distributes overhead to each of its six departments according to the ratio of total overhead to the total direct labor costs. During January, the total overhead for the factory was $20,000; the total direct labor cost $140,000. Find the ratio to be applied to all departments. Then find the amount to be charged to the Quality Control Department whose direct labor costs for the month were $16,000.

category

business

options

  1. $5,000
  2. $2,285.71
  3. $4,000
  4. $4,285.71
  5. $3,428.57
  6. $1,142.86
  7. $3,500
  8. $1,000
  9. $1,714.29
  10. $2,857.14

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stemez-Business

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upstream_id / Original problem ID
700
task_id
c602d744-f4c9-5622-886d-c5ee7bf7c447
task_key
default--test--700
task_revision_id
1
config / split
default / test

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