Rustafson Corporation is a diversified manufacturer of consumer goods. The company's activity-based costing system has the following seven activity cost pools: Activity Cost Pool Estimated Overhead Cost Expected Activity
Labor-related $52,000 8,000 direct labor-hours
Machine-related $15,000 20,000 machine-hours
Machine setups $42,000 1,000 setups
Production orders $18,000 500 orders
Product testing $48,000 2,000 tests
Packaging $75,000 5,000 packages
General factory $108,800 8,000 direct labor-hours

Required:
Compute the company's pre-determined overhead rate, assuming that the company uses a Single plantwide predetermined overhead rate based on direct labor-hours.

Suppose the number of equipment sales and service contracts that a store sold during the last six (6) months for treadmills and exercise bikes was as follows: treadmill exercise bike total sold 185 123 service contracts 67 55 the store can only sell a service contract on a new piece of equipment. of the 185 treadmills sold, 67 included a service contract and 118 did not.

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