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Question - High Desert Potteryworks makes a variety of pottery products that it sells to retailers. The company uses a job-order costing system in which departmental predetermined overhead rates are used to apply manufacturing overhead cost to jobs. The predetermined overhead rate in the Molding Department is based on machine-hours, and the rate in the Painting Department is based on direct labor-hours. At the beginning of the year, the company provided the following estimates:

Department Molding Painting

Direct labor-hours 31,000 50,700

Machine-hours 90,000 33,000

Fixed manufacturing overhead cost $198,000 $461,370

Variable manufacturing overhead per machine-hour $2.60 -

Variable manufacturing overhead per direct labor-hour - $4.60

Job 205 was started on August 1 and completed on August 10. The company's cost records show the following information concerning the job:

Department Molding Painting

Direct labor-hours 71 125

Machine-hours 320 67

Direct materials $948 $1,120

Direct labor cost $710 $960

Required -

1. Compute the predetermined overhead rates used in the Molding Department and the Painting Department.

2. Compute the total overhead cost applied to Job 205.

3-a. What would be the total manufacturing cost recorded for Job 205?

3-b. If the job contained 35 units, what would be the unit product cost?