EX 20-1 Classify costs Obj. 1 Following is a list of various costs incurred in producing replacement automobile parts. With respect to the production and sale of these auto parts, classify each cost as either variable, fixed, or mixed. 1. Oil used in manufacturing equipment 2. Plastic 3. Property taxes, $165,000 per year on factory building and equipment 4. Salary of plant manager 5. Cost of labor for hourly workers 6. Packaging 7. Factory cleaning costs, 6,000 per month 8. Metal 9. Rent on warehouse, $10,000 per month plus $25 per square foot of storage used 10. Property insurance premiums, $3,600 per month plus $0.01 for each dollar of property over $1,200,000 11. Straight-line depreciation on the production equipment 12 Hourly wages of machine operators 13. Electricity costs, $0.20 per kilowatt-hour 14. Computer chip (purchased from a vendor) 15. Pension cost, $1.00 per employee hour on the job COSTUR TUSS .50 variable cost per unit EX 20-7 High-low method Obj. 1 Ziegler Inc. has decided to use the high-low method to estimate the total cost and the fixed and variable cost components of the total cost. The data for various levels of production are as follows: Units Produced Total Costs 80,000 $25,100,000 92,000 27,206,000 120,000 32,120,000 a. Determine the variable cost per unit and the total fixed cost. b. Based on part (a), estimate the total cost for 115,000 units of production. EXCEL TEMPLATE