The production department started the month with beginning goods in process inventory of $10,000. During the month, it was assigned the following costs: direct materials of $72,000; direct labor of $20,000; factory overhead applied at the rate of 40% of direct labor cost. Inventory with a cost of $95,000 was transferred to finished goods. What is the ending balance of goods in process inventory?

Aproduction line has three machines a, b, and c, with reliabilities of .96, .86, and .85, respectively. the machines are arranged so that if one breaks down, the others must shut down. engineers are weighing two alternative designs for increasing the line’s reliability. plan 1 involves adding an identical backup line, and plan 2 involves providing a backup for each machine. in either case, three machines (a, b, and c) would be used with reliabilities equal to the original three. a. compute overall system reliability under plan 1. (round your intermediate calculations and final answer to 4 decimal places.) reliability b. compute overall system reliability under plan 2. (round your intermediate calculations and final answer to 4 decimal places.) reliability c. which plan will provide the higher reliability? plan2plan1