Worldwide Credit Card Inc uses standards to control the labour time involved in opening mail from cardholders and recording the enclosed remittances. Incoming mail is gathered into batches, and a standard time is set for opening and recording eacti batch. The labour standards relating to one batch are as follows:

Standard Hours

$2\mathrm{.}5$

Standard Rate

$$12\mathrm{.}00$

Per batch

Standard Cost $ $30,00$

The record showing the time spent last week in opening batches of mail has been misplaced. However, the batch supervisor recalls that $168$ batches were received and opened during the week, and the controller recalls the following variance data relating to these batches:

Total Labour variance

Labour rate variance

$1660$ U $1300$ F

$($Hint: A useful way to proceed is to work from known to unknown data, either by using the variance formulas or by using the columnar format$)$

Required.

$1.$ Determine the number of actual labour hours spent opening batches during the week

Actuni labour hours

$475$

$2.$ Determine the actual hourly rate paid to employees for opening batches last week. $($Round your answer to $2$ decimal