Pursuant to the request, Jacob produced the following cost and driver information:

Activity	Expected Cost				Driver		Activity Capacity
Other activities		$2,000,000			Direct labor dollars			$1,250,000
Moving materials		900,000			Number of moves			18,000
Inspecting		720,000			Inspection hours			24,000
Reworking		380,000			Rework hours			3,800
Total overhead cost		$4,000,000

Expected activity demands:

	Regular Model			Deluxe Model
Units completed		100,000			40,000
Direct labor dollars		$875,000			$375,000
Number of moves		7,200			10,800
Inspection hours		6,000			18,000
Rework hours		1,900			1,900

How would you describe the cost behavior of the inspection activity? Assume that the quality control manager implements a program that reduces the number of defective units by 50 percent. Because of the improved quality, the demand for inspection hours will also drop by 50 percent. What is the potential monthly reduction in inspection costs? How did knowledge of inspection’s cost behavior help?

Inspection activity follows a step-cost function, with each step being defined by fill in the blank hours per year. Each step costs . Current total activity capacity is . Current demand for the activity is hours. If the demand drops by 50 percent, then the new demand would be .Unused capacity at this point will be hours. Thus, can be saved per month.