Blue Ridge Marketing Inc, manufactures two products, A and B$.$ Presently, the company uses a single plantwide factory overhead rate for allocating overhead to products. However, management is considering moving to a multiple department rate system for allocating overhead. The following table presents information about estimated overhead and direct labor hours.

$\backslash$table$[[,$Direct$],[,$Overhead,Labor Hours $($dlh$),$Product A$,$Product B$],[$Painting Dept.,$$247,000,10,900dlh,6dlh,11dlh$