City gas is a natural monopoly that supplies natural gas to a particular city. its cost and demand information are given below. quantity (millions of therms) price ($ per therm) total cost (million $) 1 48 35 2 44 64 3 38 90 4 30 113 5 20 133 6 8 150 if the government decides to regulate this natural monopoly by forcing them to produce at the point where the demand curve intersects marginal cost, then the firm will make a and continue in the long run.

Moody corporation uses a job-order costing system with a plantwide predetermined overhead rate based on machine-hours. at the beginning of the year, the company made the following estimates: machine-hours required to support estimated production 100,000 fixed manufacturing overhead cost $ 650,000 variable manufacturing overhead cost per machine-hour $ 3.00 required: 1. compute the plantwide predetermined overhead rate. 2. during the year, job 400 was started and completed. the following information was available with respect to this job: direct materials $ 450 direct labor cost $ 210 machine-hours used 40