Winkle, Kotter, and Zale is a small law firm that contains 10 partners and 12 support persons. The firm employs a job-order costing system to accumulate costs chargeable to each client, and it is organized into two departmentsthe Research and Documents Department and the Litigation Department. The firm uses predetermined overhead rates to charge the costs of these departments to its clients. At the beginning of the current year, the firm's management made the following estimates for the year:

Problem 4-22 Multiple Departments; Overhead Rates: Underapplied or Overapplied Overhead (LO4-1, LO4-2, LO4-3, LO4-4 Winkle, Kotter, and Zale is a small law firm that contains 10 partners and 12 support persons. The firm employs a job-order costing system to accumulate costs chargeable to each client, and it is organized into two departments the Research and Documents Department and the Litigation Department. The firm uses predetermined overhead rates to charge the costs of these departments to its clients. At the beginning of the current year, the firm's management made the following estimates for the year: Department Research Documents Litigation Research-hours 19,600 15,600 Direct attorney-hours 9,000 17,500 4,900 Materials and supplies $429,600 $800,900 Direct attorney cost 686,000 $328,369 Departmental overhead cost The predetermined overhead rate in the Research and Documents Department is based on research-hours, and the rate in the Litigation Department is based on direct attorney cost. The costs charged to each client are made up of three elements: materials and supplies used, direct attorney costs incurred, and an applied amount of overhead from each department in which work is performed on the case Case 618-3 was initiated on February 10 and completed on June 30. During this period, the following costs and time were recorded on the case: De rtmen Research and Documents Litigation Research hours Direct attorney-hours Materials and supplies 49 31 Direct attorney cost $420 1,900 Required: 1-a. Compute the predetermined overhead rate used during the year in the Research and Documents Department. redetermined overhead rate per hour