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A-LevelAccountingLabour CostingOct/Nov 2020Paper 1 Q221 Mark

An employee works a 40-hour week at an hourly rate of $8. She receives a bonus of 30% of the hourly rate for time saved producing each unit. The target production time is 30 minutes per unit. Last week she worked 40 hours and produced 90 units. What were her gross earnings for the week?

A$320
B$332
C$360
D$416

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About This A-Level Accounting Question

This multiple-choice question appeared in the Cambridge A-Level Accounting (9706) Oct/Nov 2020 examination, Paper 1 Variant 2. It tests the topic of Labour Costing and is worth 1 mark.

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