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Bowie Sporting Goods manufactures sleeping bags. Themanufacturing standards per sleeping bag, based on 5,000 sleepingbags per month, are as follows:

Direct material of 4.00 yards at $5.00 per yard

Direct labor of 3.00 hours at $19.00 per hour

Overhead applied per sleeping bag at $18

In the month of April, the company actually produced 5,100sleeping bags using 26,800 yards of material at a cost of $5.50 peryard. The labor used was 12,250 hours at an average rate of $20.50per hour. The actual overhead spending was $96,200. Determine thelabor quantity variance and round to the nearest whole dollar.Enter a favorable variance as a negative number. Enter anunfavorable variance as a positive number.

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labor quantity variance is $57,950F
Standard Actual
Particulars Hours Rate amount Hours Rate amount
Labour                15,300.00          19.0000           290,700.00             12,250.00                     20.50           251,125.00
Actual output                  5,100.00
Labour hrs reqd (5100*3)                15,300.00
DLQV = (SH-AH)SR
DLQV = (15,300 - 12,250)19
DLQV = 57,950 F

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