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Ace Plastics Produces Many Different Kinds of Products All in One

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Ace Plastics produces many different kinds of products all in one manufacturing facility. They have identified four activities for their costing system:
Materials management - allocated by number of purchase orders
Chemical processing - allocated on metric tons
Molding - allocated on direct labor hours
Packaging - allocated by number of units produced
The activity rates are as follows:
 terials management $12.00 Per purchase order  Chemical processing $7.50 Per metric ton  Molding $24.00 Per direct labor hour  Packaging $0.10 Per unit \begin{array} { | l | r| r | } \hline \text { terials management } & \$ 12.00 & \text { Per purchase order } \\\hline \text { Chemical processing } & \$ 7.50& \text { Per metric ton } \\\hline \text { Molding } & \$ 24.00& \text { Per direct labor hour } \\\hline \text { Packaging } & \$ 0.10& \text { Per unit } \\\hline\end{array}
Ace received an order for 3,000 plastic toys. The engineering design shows that the order will require $540 of direct material cost in total, $90 of direct labor cost, will require 4 purchase orders, will use 2 metric tons of chemical base, will need 8 direct labor hours, and will produce 3.000 units of product. How much is the manufacturing cost for one unit of product? (Please round to the nearest tenth of a cent.)


A) $0.630
B) $0.365
C) $0.395
D) $0.185

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