The standard cost sheet for Chambers Company, which manufactures one product, follows:
Direct materials, 40 yards at $2.00 per yard $ 80
Direct labor, 5 hours at $20 per hour 100
Factory overhead applied at 80% of direct labor 80 (variable costs = $60; fixed costs = $20)
Variable selling and administrative 64
Fixed selling and administrative 40
Total unit costs $ 364
Standards have been computed based on a master budget activity level of 28,800 direct labor-hours per month. Actual activity for the past month was as follows:
Materials used 200,000 yards at $2.10 per yand
Direct labor 28,500 hours at $21.00 per hour
Total factory overhead $550,000
Production 5,600 units
Required:
1. Prepare variance analyses for the variable and fixed costs. Materials are purchased as they are used. (Do not round intermediate calculations).

Suppose that in an economy the structural unemployment rate is 2.2 percent, the natural unemployment rate is 5.3 percent, and the cyclical unemployment rate is 2 percent. the frictional unemployment rate is percent and the actual unemployment rate (in this economy) is percent.

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