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Sweeten Company had no jobs in progress at the beginning of March and no beginning inventories. The company has two manufacturing departments--Molding and Fabrication. It started, completed, and sold only two jobs during MarchJob P and Job Q. The following additional information is available for the company as a whole and for Jobs P and Q (all data and questions relate to the month of March):

	Molding			Fabrication			Total
Estimated total machine-hours used		2,500			1,500			4,000
Estimated total fixed manufacturing overhead	$	13,750		$	17,250		$	31,000
Estimated variable manufacturing overhead per machine-hour	$	2.90		$	3.70

	Job P			Job Q
Direct materials	$	28,000		$	15,500
Direct labor cost	$	33,000		$	13,500
Actual machine-hours used:
Molding		3,200			2,300
Fabrication		2,100			2,400
Total		5,300			4,700

Sweeten Company had no underapplied or overapplied manufacturing overhead costs during the month.

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For questions 1-8, assume that Sweeten Company uses a plantwide predetermined overhead rate with machine-hours as the allocation base. For questions 9-15, assume that the company uses departmental predetermined overhead rates with machine-hours as the allocation base in both departments.

1. What was the companys plantwide predetermined overhead rate? (Round your answer to 2 decimal places.)