Sharp Company manufactures a product for which the following standards have been set:

Standard Quantity or Hours Standard Price or Rate Standard Cost
Direct materials 3feet $5 per foot $15
Direct labor ? hours ? per hour ?

During March, the company purchased direct materials at a cost of $59,040, all of which were used in the production of 3,000 units of product. In addition, 4,600 hours of direct labor time were worked on the product during the month. The cost of this labor time was $34,500. The following variances have been computed for the month:

Materials quantity variance $4,200 U
Labor spending variance $3,900 U
Labor efficiency variance $680 U

Required:
1. For direct materials:
a. Compute the actual cost per foot for materials for March. (Round your answer to 2 decimal places.)
b. Compute the price variance and the spending variance. (Do not round intermediate calculations. Indicate the effect of each variance by selecting "F" for favorable, "U" for unfavorable, and "None" for no effect (i. e., zero variance))

2. For direct labor:
a. Compute the standard direct labor rate per hour. (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your final answer to 2 decimal places.)
b. Compute the standard hours allowed for the month’s production.
c. Compute the standard hours allowed per unit of product. (Round your answer to 1 decimal place.)

Imagine us is a startup that offers high definition 3d prenatal ultrasounds for high-end customers. the service process includes four activities that are conducted in the sequence described below. (the time required for each activity is shown in parentheses): activity 1: welcome a patient and explain the procedure. (20 minutes)activity 2: prep the patient (e.g., show them to the room, apply ultrasound gel). (17 minutes) (*your id number represents the amount of time needed to complete this task)activity 3: take images. (5 minutes)activity 4: discuss diagnostic with patient. (20 minutes)at each location there are employees (servers) s1, s2, and s3. the assignment of tasks to servers is the following: s1 does activities 1 and 2.s2 does activity 3.s3 does activity 4.a. what is the capacity of this process (in customers per hour)? b. suppose 3 patients arrive every hour on average. ignoring any “start of day” or “end of day” effects, what are the utilizations of all three servers (%)? c. suppose each activity can be done by any server and any server can do any set of activities. however, each activity is done by only one server. for example, a possible assignment includes: s1 does activity 1, s2 does activity 2, and s3 does activities 3 and 4. of course, the original assignment of servers to activities is also feasible. what is the maximum capacity of the process (in customers per hour)? d. now consider the capacity measures in (c) and (a), what is the percentage change? why can you improve capacity without using additional resources? (there is no free lunch, right? )note: for all hw assignments, show your process of getting the results. only providing the final answers is not acceptable and will get 0%. if necessary, use a separate sheet of paper to show your work.