Because Sweeten has two manufacturing departments$-$Molding and Fabrication$-$it is considering replacing its plantwide overhead rate with departmental rates that would also be based on machine$-$hours. The company gathered the following additional information to enable calculating departmental overhead rates:

$\backslash$table$[[,$Molding,Fabrication,Total$],[$Estimated total machine$-$hours used,$2,500,1,500,4,000],[$Estimated total fixed manufacturing overhead,$$14,000,$$$17,400,$$$31,400$