Nonvalue-Added Costs Lemmons Inc. has the following two activities: (1) Retesting reworked products, cost: $479,000. The retesting cost of the most efficient competitor is $225,000. (2) Welding subassemblies, cost: $742,500 (67,500 welding hours). A benchmarking study reveals that the most efficient level for Lemmons would use 54,000 welding hours and entail a cost of $594,000. Required: Determine the nonvalue-added cost of each activity.

In 2018, laureen is currently single. she paid $2,800 of qualified tuition and related expenses for each of her twin daughters sheri and meri to attend state university as freshmen ($2,800 each for a total of $5,600). sheri and meri qualify as laureen’s dependents. laureen also paid $1,900 for her son ryan’s (also laureen’s dependent) tuition and related expenses to attend his junior year at state university. finally, laureen paid $1,200 for herself to attend seminars at a community college to her improve her job skills. what is the maximum amount of education credits laureen can claim for these expenditures in each of the following alternative scenarios? a. laureen's agi is $45,000.b. laureen’s agi is $95,000.c. laureen’s agi is $45,000 and laureen paid $12,000 (not $1,900) for ryan to attend graduate school (i. e, his fifth year, not his junior year).