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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 departmentsMolding and Fabrication. It started, completed, and sold only two jobs during MarchJob 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		3,100			1,860			4,960
Estimated total fixed manufacturing overhead	$	12,400		$	18,600		$	31,000
Estimated variable manufacturing overhead per machine-hour	$	1.40		$	2.20

	Job P			Job Q
Direct materials	$	16,120		$	9,920
Direct labor cost	$	26,040		$	9,300
Actual machine-hours used:
Molding		2,160			990
Fabrication		740			1,070
Total		2,900			2,060

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

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For questions 1-9, 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 10-15, assume that the company uses a plantwide predetermined overhead rate with machine-hours as the allocation base.

If Job Q included 30 units, what was its unit product cost?

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