George kyparisis makes bowling balls in his miami plant. with recent increases in his costs, he has a newfound interest in efficiency. george is interested in determining the productivity of his organization. he would like to know if his organization is maintaining the manufacturing average of a 3% increase in productivity. he has the following data representing a month from last year and an equivalent month this year: last year now units produced 1 comma 000 1 comma 000 labor (hours) 300 250 resin (pounds) 50 45 capital invested ($) 8 comma 500 12 comma 500 energy (btu) 2 comma 950 2 comma 750 the productivity change for each of the inputs (labor, resin, capital, and energy) is: labor productivity change = 20.00% (enter your response as a percentage rounded to two decimal places and include a minus sign if necessary). resin productivity change = nothing% (enter your response as a percentage rounded to two decimal places and include a minus sign if necessary).

Pestiferous manufacturing produces a chemical pesticide and uses process costing. there are three processing departmentslong dash​mixing, ​refining, and packaging. on january​ 1, the first departmentlong dashmixinglong dashhad no beginning inventory. during​ january, 48,000 fl. oz. of chemicals were started in production. of​ these, 40,000 fl. oz. were​ completed, and​ 8,000 fl. oz. remained in process. in the mixing​ department, all direct materials are added at the beginning of the production​ process, and conversion costs are applied evenly throughout the process. at the end of​ january, the equivalent unit data for the mixing department were as​ follows: units equivalent units equivalent units units to be accounted for direct materials costs conversion costs completed and transferred out ​40,000 ​40,000 ​40,000 ending​ work-in-process* ​8,000 ​8,000 ​3,520 ​48,000 ​48,000 ​43,520 ​* percent complete for conversion​ costs: 44% in addition to the​ above, the cost per equivalent unit were​ $1.35 for direct materials and​ $5.30 for conversion costs. using this​ data, calculate the full cost of the ending wip balance in the mixing department. the​ weighted-average method is used.