Perfect Pet Collar Company makes custom leather pet collars. The company expects each collar to require 2.05 feet of leather and predicts leather will cost $3.60 per foot. Suppose Perfect Pet made 55 collars during February. For these 55 collars, the company actually averaged 2.20 feet of leather per collar and paid $3.20 per foot.

Required:
1. Calculate the standard direct materials cost per unit. (Round your answer to 2 decimal places.)
Standard direct materials cost per unit:

2.
Without performing any calculations, determine whether the direct materials price variance will be favorable or unfavorable.

3.
Without performing any calculations, determine whether the direct materials quantity variance will be favorable or unfavorable.

4.
Calculate the direct materials price and quantity variances. (Round your intermediate calculations and final answers to 2 decimal places. Indicate the effect of each variance by selecting "F" for favorable, "U" for unfavorable.)

Direct materials Price Variance:

Direct Materials Quantity Variance:

The gilbert instrument corporation is considering replacing the wood steamer it currently uses to shape guitar sides. the steamer has 6 years of remaining life. if kept, the steamer will have depreciaiton expenses of $650 for five years and $325 for the sixthyear. its current book value is $3,575, and it can be sold on an internet auction site for$4,150 at this time. if the old steamer is not replaced, it can be sold for $800 at the endof its useful life. gilbert is considering purchasing the side steamer 3000, a higher-end steamer, whichcosts $12,000 and has an estimated useful life of 6 years with an estimated salvage value of$1,500. this steamer falls into the macrs 5-year class, so the applicable depreciationrates are 20.00%, 32.00%, 19.20%, 11.52%, 11.52%, and 5.76%. the new steamer is fasterand allows for an output expansion, so sales would rise by $2,000 per year; the newmachine's much greater efficiency would reduce operating expenses by $1,900 per year. to support the greater sales, the new machine would require that inventories increase by$2,900, but accounts payable would simultaneously increase by $700. gilbert's marginalfederal-plus-state tax rate is 40%, and its wacc is 15%.a. should it replace the old steamer? b. npv of replace = $2,083.51