Fixed Overhead Relationships. University Medical Center has a radiology department that operated at 50,000 standard hours last year. The standard calls for five patients per hour, and the department actually handled 9,000 patients. Fixed overhead data are as follows:

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1. What was the fixed overhead budget last year?
2. What was the fixed overhead rate per patient?
3. How many patients were considered to be normal volume?
4. Would the capacity variance have been smaller or larger if the Radiology Department had processed 12,000 patients? Explain.

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Fixed overhead charged to patients Unfavorable capacity variance.. $630,000 350,000