Balcom Enterprises is planning to introduce a new product that will sell for $110 a unit. Manufacturing cost estimates for 21,500 units for the first year of production are:

• Direct materials $1,139,500.
• Direct labor $731,000 (based on $17 per hour 43,000 hours).

Although overhead has not be estimated for the new product, monthly data for Balcom's total production for the last two years has been analyzed using simple linear regression. The analysis results are as follows:

Dependent variable	Factory overhead costs
Independent variable	Direct labor hours
Intercept	$	123,000
Coefficient on independent variable	$	4.00
Coefficient of correlation		0.920
R2		0.820

Based on this information, what is the total overhead cost for an estimated activity level of 48,000 direct labor-hours?

Multiple Choice

A) $492,000

B) $128,000

C) $192,000

D) $315,000