Sweeten Company had no jobs in progress at the beginning of March and no beginning inventories. The company has two manufacturing departments$$Molding and Fabrication. It started, completed, and sold only two jobs during March$$Job 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 $2,5001,5004,000$

Estimated total fixed manufacturing overhead $ $13,250$ $ $16,950$ $ $30,200$

Estimated variable manufacturing overhead per machine$-$hour $ $2\mathrm{.}70$ $ $3\mathrm{.}50$

Job P Job Q

Direct materials $ $26,000$ $ $14,500$

Direct labor cost $ $31,400$ $ $12,700$

Actual machine$-$hours used:

Molding $3,0002,100$

Fabrication $1,9002,200$

Total $4,9004,300$

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

Required:

For questions $1-9,$ assume that Sweeten Company uses departmental predetermined overhead rates with machine$-$hours as the allocation base in both departments and Job P included $20$ units and Job Q included $30$ units. For questions $10-15,$ assume that the company uses a plantwide predetermined overhead rate with machine$-$hours as the allocation base.

$10.$ What was the company$$s plantwide predetermined overhead rate? $($Round your answer to $2$ decimal places.$)$