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Acton Corporation, which applies manufacturing overhead on the basis of machine-hours, has provided the following data for its most recent year of operations. Estimated manufacturing overhead $202,600 Estimated machine-hours 2,000 Actual manufacturing overhead $194,600 Actual machine-hours 1,930 The estimates of the manufacturing overhead and of machine-hours were made at the beginning of the year for the purpose of computing the company's predetermined overhead rate for the year. The applied manufacturing overhead for the year is closest to:

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$195,509

Step-by-step explanation:

The computation of the applied manufacturing overhead is shown below:

But before that the predetermined overhead rate is

= Estimated manufacturing overhead ÷ estimated machine hours

= $202,600 ÷ 2,000

= $101.30

Now the applied overhead is

= Actual machine hours × predetermined overhead rate

= 1,930 × $101.30

= $195,509

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