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Mets Products produces baseball caps and T-shirts. Most of the production is done by machine. Data on operations and costs for October follow: Baseball Caps T-Shirts Total Units produced 10,600 4,900 15,500 Machine-hours used 1,020 820 1,840 Direct labor-hours 220 130 350 Direct materials costs $ 12,000 $ 8,700 $ 20,700 Direct labor costs $ 4,400 $ 2,600 $ 7,000 Manufacturing overhead costs $ 23,322 Management asks the firm's cost accountant to compute product costs. The accountant first assigns overhead costs to two pools: overhead related to direct materials and overhead related to machine-hours. The analysis of overhead accounts by the cost accountant follows: Account Amount Related to: Utilities $ 4,020 Machine-hours Supplies 2,900 Materials Machine depreciation and maintenance 9,642 Machine-hours Purchasing and storing materials 3,310 Materials Miscellaneous 3,450 Machine-hours Required: (a) Compute the predetermined overhead rates assuming that Mets Products uses machine-hours to allocate machine-related overhead costs and materials costs to allocate materials-related overhead costs. (Round your machine-related overhead rate to 2 decimal places. Enter your materials related overhead rate as a whole percentage (i.e., 32).) Overhead Rate Machine related overhead per hour Materials related overhead 30 % (b) Compute the total costs of production and the cost per unit for each of the two products for October. (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your cost per unit to 2 decimal places.) Baseball Caps T-shirts Total cost Cost per unit

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