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Sweeten Company had no jobs in progress at the beginning of March and no beginning inventories. The company has two manufacturing departmentsMolding and Fabrication. It started, completed, and sold only two jobs during MarchJob P and Job Q. The following additional information is available for the company as a whole and for Jobs P and Q (all data and questions relate to the month of March):

	Molding			Fabrication			Total
Estimated total machine-hours used		2,500			1,500			4,000
Estimated total fixed manufacturing overhead	$	14,750		$	17,850		$	32,600
Estimated variable manufacturing overhead per machine-hour	$	3.30		$	4.10

	Job P			Job Q
Direct materials	$	32,000		$	17,500
Direct labor cost	$	36,200		$	15,100
Actual machine-hours used:
Molding		3,600			2,700
Fabrication		2,500			2,800
Total		6,100			5,500

Sweeten Company had no underapplied or overapplied manufacturing overhead costs during the month.

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Assume that Sweeten Company uses a plantwide predetermined overhead rate with machine-hours as the allocation base.

1. How much manufacturing overhead was applied to Job P and how much was applied to Job Q? (Do not round intermediate calculations.)

Manufacturing overhead applied: Job P_______? Job Q_______?

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