Refer to your calculations for exercise 6-21. Your supervisor wants to know how much it costs to make a standard jacket and a deluxe jacket, including the cost of materials; labor, which costs $8 per hour; and manufacturing overhead.

a. Give your supervisor four different answers, for each type ofjacket, to the question:

"How much does it cost to make?"

b. Explain to your supervisor why there are four different cost numbers for each product. Also indicate whether total manufacturing costs are the same for The Leather Company regardless of the overhead allocation base used.