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Kansas Supplies is a manufacturer of plastic parts that uses the weighted-average process costing method to account for costs of production. It produces parts in three separate departments: Molding, Assembling, and Packaging. The following information was obtained for the Assembling Department for the month of April.

Work in process on April 1 had 111,000 units made up of the following.

	Amount	Degree of Completion
Prior department costs transferred in from the Molding Department	$	155,400			100	%
Costs added by the Assembling Department
Direct materials	$	99,900			100	%
Direct labor		45,007			70	%
Manufacturing overhead		25,026			50	%
	$	169,933
Work in process, April 1	$	325,333

During April, 511,000 units were transferred in from the Molding Department at a cost of $715,400. The Assembling Department added the following costs.

Direct materials	$	440,910
Direct labor		215,903
Manufacturing overhead		117,264
Total costs added	$	774,077

Assembling finished 411,000 units and transferred them to the Packaging Department.

At April 30, 211,000 units were still in work-in-process inventory. The degree of completion of work-in-process inventory at April 30 was as follows.

Direct materials	90	%
Direct labor	80
Manufacturing overhead	30

Required:

a. Prepare a production cost report using the weighted-average method. (Round "Cost per equivalent unit" to 2 decimal places.)

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