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Sweeten Company had no jobs in progress at the beginning of March and no beginning inventories. The company has two manufacturing departments$$Molding and Fabrication. It started, completed, and sold only two jobs during March$$Job P and Job Q$.$ The following additional information is available for the company as a whole and for Jobs P and Q $($all data and questions relate to the month of March$)$:

Molding Fabrication Total

Estimated total machine$-$hours used $4,0002,4006,400$

Estimated total fixed manufacturing overhead $ $16,000$ $ $24,000$ $ $40,000$

Estimated variable manufacturing overhead per machine$-$hour $ $1\mathrm{.}40$ $ $2\mathrm{.}20$

Job P Job Q

Direct materials $ $20,800$ $ $12,800$

Direct labor cost $ $33,600$ $ $12,000$

Actual machine$-$hours used:

Molding $2,7401,280$

Fabrication $9601,420$

Total $3,7002,700$

Sweeten Company had no underapplied or overapplied manufacturing overhead costs during the month.

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For questions $1$ to $9,$ assume that Sweeten Company uses departmental predetermined overhead rates with machine$-$hours as the allocation base in both departments and Job P included $20$ units and Job Q included $30$ units. For questions $10$ to $15,$ assume that the company uses a plantwide predetermined overhead rate with machine$-$hours as the allocation base.

$2.$ How much manufacturing overhead was applied from the Molding Department to Job P and how much was applied to Job Q$?($Do not round intermediate calculations.$)$

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