Samantha's Sundries Inc. assigns overhead to specific jobs based on machine hours. At the beginning of the current year, estimated overhead costs were $400,000 and estimated machine hours were 25,000. By the end of the year, actual overhead costs were calculated to be $375,000 and actual machine hours were 30,000. One of the jobs worked on during the year was Job #49 which used 30 machine hours.
How much overhead was applied to Job #49?

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The Answer of Samantha's Sundries Inc. assigns overhead to specific jobs based on machine hours. At the beginning of the current year, estimated overhead costs were $400,000 and estimated machine hours were 25,000. By the end of the year, actual overhead costs were calculated to be $375,000 and actual machine hours were 30,000. One of the jobs worked on during the year was Job #49 which used 30 machine hours.
How much overhead was applied to Job #49?