Cortez Company is planning to introduce a new product that will sell for $96 per unit. The following manufacturing cost estimate

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Cortez Company is planning to introduce a new product that will sell for $96 per unit. The following manufacturing cost estimate

s have been made on 20,000 units to be produced the first year: Direct materials $ 800,000 Direct labor 640,000 (= $16 per hour × 40,000 hours) Manufacturing overhead costs have not yet been estimated for the new product, but monthly data on total production and overhead costs for the past 24 months have been analyzed using simple linear regression. The following results were derived from the simple regression and provide the basis for overhead cost estimates for the new product. Simple Regression Analysis Results Dependent variable—Factory overhead costs Independent variable—Direct labor-hours Computed values Intercept $ 120,000 Coefficient on independent variable $ 5.00 Coefficient of correlation 0.921 R2 0.848 Required: a. What percentage of the variation in overhead costs is explained by the independent variable? 92.10% 45.00% 84.80% 8.48% None of the above

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