Novello Medical Center has a single operating room that is used by local physicians to perform surgical procedures. The cost of using the operating room is accumulated

by each patient procedure and includes the direct materials costs $($drugs and medical devices$),$ physician surgical time, and operating room overhead. On January $1$ of the

current year, the annual operating room overhead is estimated to be:

The overhead costs will be assigned to procedures based on the number of surgical room hours. Novello Medical Center expects to use the operating room an average of

eight hours per day, seven days per week. In addition, the operating room will be shut down two weeks per year for general repairs.

a$.$ Compute the estimated number of operating room hours for the year.

hours

b$.$ Determine the predetermined operating room overhead rate for the year.

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per hour

c$.$ Conrad Goldsmith had a $5-$hour procedure on January $22.$ How much operating room overhead would be charged to his procedure, using the rate determined in part

$($b$)?$

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d$.$ During January, the operating room was used $186$ hours. The actual overhead costs incurred for January were $$52,800.$ Determine the overapplied operating overhead

or underapplied operating overhead for the period.