From April 1 through October 31, Will County Highway Department hires temporary employees to mow and clean the right-of-way along county roads. The County Road Commissioner has asked you to help her in determining the variable labor cost of mowing and cleaning a mile of road. The following information is available regarding current-year operations: Month Miles Mowed and Cleaned Labor Costs
April 350 $12,000
May 300 11,250
June 400 13,500
July 250 8,250
August 375 12,750
September 200 7,500
October 100 7,200

Required:
a. Use the information from the high- and low-volume months to develop a cost-estimating equation for monthly labor costs.
b. Plot the data on a scatter diagram. Using the information from representative high and low volume months, use the high-low method to develop a cost-estimating equation for monthly labor costs.
c. What factors might have caused the difference in the equations developed for requirements A and B?
d. Adjust the equation developed in requirement B to incorporate the effect of an anticipated 7 percent increase is wages.

The selling price of houses would be most likely to decrease if there were first a decrease in which of the following? a. new-housing construction. b. mortgage interest rates. c. the unemployment rate. d. construction workers' wages. 2b2t

Acompany determined that the budgeted cost of producing a product is $30 per unit. on june 1, there were 80,000 units on hand, the sales department budgeted sales of 300,000 units in june, and the company desires to have 120,000 units on hand on june 30. the budgeted cost of goods sold for june would be

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