Acertain project has three activities on its critical path. activity a’s normal completion time is five days. it can be crashed to three days at a cost of $500. activity b’s normal completion time is six days, and it can be crashed to four days at a cost of $50. activity c’s normal completion time is eight days. it can be crashed to three days at a cost of $1,000. which activity should the project manager crash first, by how many days, and how much will it cost?

Mno corporation uses a job-order costing system with a predetermined overhead rate based on direct labor-hours. the company based its predetermined overhead rate for the current year on the following data: total estimated direct labor-hours 50,000 total estimated fixed manufacturing overhead cost $ 285,000 estimated variable manufacturing overhead per direct labor-hour $ 3.80 recently, job p123 was completed with the following characteristics: total actual direct labor-hours 20 direct materials $ 710 direct labor cost $ 500 the amount of overhead applied to job p123 is closest to: