Lake Erie Company uses a plant-wide overhead rate with machine hours as the allocation basis. It is expected that next year 770,000 units will be produced with 0.85 machine hours each. 

What overhead costs will be allocated to each unit produced given the following estimated quantities?

Estimated:	Department 1	Department 2
General manufacturing costs	$3,141,500	$1,571,000
Direct labor hours	167,000 DEBT	267,000 DEBT
machine hours	267.000 MH	192.000 MH

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