The total factory overhead for Martin Company is budgeted for the year at $375,000. Martin manufactures two garden products: a leaf blower and a garden wagon. These products each require 4 direct labor hours (dlh) to manufacture. Each product is budgeted for 2,500 units of production for the year. What would the single plantwide factory overhead rate be?

$18.75 per direct labor hour

Explanation:

the company's total estimated production is 2,500 leaf blowers and 2,500 garden wagons. The production of each product requires 4 direct labor hours, so if 5,000 units will be produced in total, then the company the require 5,000 units x 4 dlh per unit = 20,000 direct labor hours.

To determine the single plant wide factory overhead rate we divide total budgeted overhead rate by total direct labor hours = $375,000 / 20,000 hours = $18.75 per direct labor hour.

Factory overhead includes indirect costs that must be allocated to the manufactured products.

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heterothermic organisms include those organisms that can switch between homeothermic (having body temperature higher than environment) and poikilothermic (having variation in internal body temperature) strategies.

some migratory birds show heterothermy as they decrease their metabolic rate during cold nights to keep their body temperature low. drop in metabolic rate allows increase in production efficiency of birds that reduces the internal body temperature to make it equal to external cold temperature during cold nights.

thus, the correct answer is 'birds allow their temperature drop in order to increase their production efficiency.'