Reference no: EM132529137

Salter Manufacturing Company produces inventory in a highly automated assembly plant in Fall River, Massachusetts. The automated system is in its first year of operation and management is still unsure of the best way to estimate the overhead costs of operations for budgetary purposes. For the first six months of operations, the following data were collected:

Machine-hours Kilowatt-hours Total Overhead Costs
January 4,560 5,424,000 $405,600
February 4,380 5,208,000 404,160
March 4,680 5,400,000 407,040
April 3,960 5,148,000 404,160
May 3,900 5,040,000 391,200
June 3,720 4,944,000 384,000

Corise's Wild Game Company used least squares regression analysis to obtain the following output for the maintenance costs as dependent variable and Machine-hours as an independent variable for the month from February to June :

Regression Analysis output:
Constant 17,540
Standard