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Hickory Company manufactures two products -15,000 units of Product Y and 7,000 units of Product Z. The company use a plantwide overhead rate based on direct labor-hours. It is considering implementing an activity-based costing (ABC) system that allocates all $729,600 of its manufacturing overhead to four cost pools. The following additional information available for the company as a whole and for Products Y and Z :
\table[[,,Estimated Overhead,],[Activity Cost Pool,Activity Measure,Cost,Expected Activity],[Machining,Machine-hours,$227,700,11,000 MHs],[Machine setups,Number of setups,$153,900,270 setups],[Product design,Number of products,$91,000,2 products],[General factory,Direct labor-hours,$257,000,13,200 DLHs]]
\table[[Activity Measure,Product Y,Product Z],[Machine-hours,7,700,3,300],[Number of setups,60,210],[Number of products,1,1],[Direct labor-hours,8,700,4,500]]
Using the plantwide overhead rate, what percentage of the total overhead cost is allocated to Product Y and Product Z? Note: Round intermediate calculations to 2 decimal places. Round your "Percentage" answers to 2 decimal place.
\table[[,Product Y,Product Z
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