All the employees at agyris fence, inc. were sad when mr. agyris, the founder of the company, died. the remaining agyris managers decided that the company needed new ideas, so they hired mr. solaris, the ceo of a rival fencing company, to run the firm. mr. solaris changed many things, including the firm’s target market. before, agyris sold mostly residential fencing. now, mr. solaris wants all of the employees to focus on selling fences to businesses and corporations. employees think that mr. solaris is trying to reduce competition for his old company, and they are not happy about the change.

Laval produces lamps and home lighting fixtures. its most popular product is a brushed aluminum desk lamp. this lamp is made from components shaped in the fabricating department and assembled in the assembly department. information related to the 22,000 desk lamps produced annually follows. direct materials $280,000direct labor fabricating department (8,000 dlh × $24 per dlh) $192,000assembly department (16,600 dlh × $26 per dlh) $431,600machine hours fabricating department $15,200mhassembly department $20,850mhexpected overhead cost and related data for the two production departments follow. fabricating assemblydirect labor hours 150,000dlh 295,000dlhmachine hours 161,000mh 128,000mhoverhead cost $400,000 430,000required1. determine the plantwide overhead rate for laval using direct labor hours as a base.2. determine the total manufacturing cost per unit for the aluminum desk lamp using the plantwide overhead rate.3. compute departmental overhead rates based on machine hours in the fabricating department and direct labor hours in the assembly department.4. use departmental overhead rates from requirement 3 to determine the total manufacturing cost per unit for the aluminum desk lamps.