Ludlow Plastics manufactures custom park furniture and signage from recycled plastics (primarily shredded milk jugs.) Many of the company€™s customers are municipalities that are required by law to purchase goods that meet certain recycled- content guidelines. (Recycled- content can include post- consumer waste materials, pre- consumer waste ­materials, and recovered materials.) As a result, Ludlow includes two types of direct material charges in its job cost for each job: (1) virgin materials (non- recycled), and (2) recycled-content materials. Ludlow also keeps track of the pounds of each type of direct material so that the final recycled- content percentage for the job can be reported to the customer. Ludlow also reports on the percentage of recycled content as a total of total plastic used each month in its own internal reporting system to help to encourage managers to use recycled content whenever possible.
Ludlow Plastics uses a predetermined manufacturing overhead rate of $ 6 per direct labor hour. Here is a summary of the materials and labor used on a recent job for Jefferson County:

Requirements
1. Calculate the total cost of the Jefferson County job.
2. Calculate the percentage of recycled content used in the Jefferson County job (using pounds). If items purchased by Jefferson County are required by county charter to contain at least 60% recycled content, does this job meet thatrequirement?

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Quantity 120 pounds Description Virgin materials Recycled-content materials 280 pounds 2.60 per pound Direct labor Cost 3.70 per pound 16 hours $12.00 per hour