Sweeten Company had no jobs in progress at the beginning of March and no beginning inventories. The company has two manufacturing departments--Molding and Fabrication. It started, completed, and sold only two jobs during March—Job P and Job Q. The following additional information is available for the company as a whole and for Jobs P and Q (all data and questions relate to the month of March):



Molding Fabrication Total
Estimated total machine-hours used 2,500 1,500 4,000
Estimated total fixed manufacturing overhead $ 10,000 $ 15,000 $ 25,000
Estimated variable manufacturing overhead per machine-hour $ 1.40 $ 2.20


Job P Job Q
Direct materials $ 13,000 $ 8,000
Direct labor cost $ 21,000 $ 7,500
Actual machine-hours used:
Molding 1,700 800
Fabrication 600 900
Total 2,300 1,700


Sweeten Company had no underapplied or overapplied manufacturing overhead costs during the month.

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