Pinnacle Corp. budgeted $700,000 of overhead cost for the current year. Actual overhead costs for the year were $650,000. Pinnacle's plantwide allocation base, machine hours, was budgeted at 100,000 hours. Actual machine hours were 80,000. A total of 100,000 units was budgeted to be produced and 98,000 units were actually produced. Pinnacle's plantwide factory overhead rate for the current year is a.$8.75 per machine hour b.$6.50 per machine hour c.$7.00 per machine hour d.$8.13 per machine hour

John and daphne are saving for their daughter ellen's college education. ellen just turned 10 at (t = 0), and she will be entering college 8 years from now (at t = 8). college tuition and expenses at state u. are currently $14,500 a year, but they are expected to increase at a rate of 3.5% a year. ellen should graduate in 4 years--if she takes longer or wants to go to graduate school, she will be on her own. tuition and other costs will be due at the beginning of each school year (at t = 8, 9, 10, and 11).so far, john and daphne have accumulated $15,000 in their college savings account (at t = 0). their long-run financial plan is to add an additional $5,000 in each of the next 4 years (at t = 1, 2, 3, and 4). then they plan to make 3 equal annual contributions in each of the following years, t = 5, 6, and 7. they expect their investment account to earn 9%. how large must the annual payments at t = 5, 6, and 7 be to cover ellen's anticipated college costs? a. $1,965.21b. $2,068.64c. $2,177.51d. $2,292.12e. $2,412.76