Marigold Corp. thinks machine hours is the best activity base for its manufacturing overhead. The estimate of annual overhead costs for its jobs was $1550000. The company used 1000 hours of processing on Job No. B12 during the period and incurred overhead costs totaling $1600000. The budgeted machine hours for the year totaled 20000. How much overhead should be applied to Job No. B12

Aproperty title search firm is contemplating using online software to increase its search productivity. currently an average of 40 minutes is needed to do a title search. the researcher cost is $2 per minute. clients are charged a fee of $400. company a's software would reduce the average search time by 10 minutes, at a cost of $3.50 per search. company b's software would reduce the average search time by 12 minutes at a cost of $3.60 per search. which option would have the higher productivity in terms of revenue per dollar of input?