At the Beginning of the Year, Molybdenum Company Initiated an Environmental

Multiple Choice

At the beginning of the year, Molybdenum Company initiated an environmental cost reduction program. To help assess the impact of the environmental cost reduction improvement program, the following data was collected for the current and preceding year: $\begin{array}{lrr}&\text { Freceding Year }&\text { Current Year }\\\text { Operating costs } & \$ 2,400,000 & \$ 2,400,000 \\\text { Training employees } & 30,000 & 48,000 \\\text { Inspecting processes } & 7,000 & 8,000 \\\text { Operating pollution control equipment } & 32,000 & 50,000 \\\text { Maintaining pollution equipment } & 60,000 & 28,000 \\\text { Devel oping environmental performance measures } & 10,000 & 12,000 \\\text { Cleaning up lake } & 36,000 & 24,000\end{array}$ For the current year, external failure costs are what percentage of operating costs?

A) 1.5350%
B) 1.1875%
C) 1.0000%
D) 0.8350%