Pinacle Corp. budgeted $700,000 of overhead cost for the current year. Actual overhead costs for the year were $650,000. Pinacle's plantwide allocation base, machine hours, was budgeted at 100,000 hours. Actual machine hours were 80,000. A total of 100,000 units was budgeted to be produced and 98,000 units were actually produced.
Pinacle's plantwide factory overhead rate for the current year is .

Estimated manufacturing overhead rate= $7 per machine hour

Explanation:

Giving the following information:

Pinacle Corp. budgeted $700,000 of overhead costs for the current year.

Pinacle's plantwide allocation base, machine hours, was budgeted at 100,000 hours.

To calculate the estimated manufacturing overhead rate we need to use the following formula:

Estimated manufacturing overhead rate= total estimated overhead costs for the period/ total amount of allocation base

Estimated manufacturing overhead rate= 700,000/100,000= $7 per machine hour

answer: in the short-run firms will respond by raising the price of turkey.

explanation: initially the long-run equilibrium is at a price of $5 per pound of turkey and a quantity of 50 million pounds per year. now, when webmd claims that a protein found in turkey will increase your expected lifespan by 4 years. the consumers demand for turkey will increase at every price shifting the demand curve to the right from d1 to d2. while, there will be no change in the supply curve in the short-run as it is not possible for producers to adjust supply so quickly. as a result the new equilibrium will occur at a higher price and a higher quantity of turkey.

thus, in the short run firms will respond by increasing the price of turkey, selling more quantity at a higher price and earning economic profits.