Reference no: EM132645099

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):

MoldingFabricationTotalEstimated total machine-hours used 2,500  1,500  4,000 Estimated total fixed manufacturing overhead$14,500 $17,700 $32,200 Estimated variable manufacturing overhead per machine-hour$3.20 $4.00   

Job PJob QDirect materials$31,000 $17,000 Direct labor cost$35,400 $14,700 Actual machine-hours used:      Molding 3,500  2,600 Fabrication 2,400  2,700 Total 5,900  5,300

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

Required:

For questions 1-9, assume that Sweeten Company uses departmental predetermined overhead rates with machine-hours as the allocation base in both departments and Job P included 20 units and Job Q included 30 units. For questions 10-15, assume that the company uses a plantwide predetermined overhead rate with machine-hours as the allocation base.

What were the company's predetermined overhead rates in the Molding Department and the Fabrication Department? (Round your answers to 2 decimal places.)