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The Nowra Company has assembled the following data pertaining to certain costs that cannot be easily identified as either fixed or variable.Nowra Company has heard about a method of measuring cost functions called the high-low method and has decided to use it in this situation.
 Month  Cost  Hours  January $400003500 February 244002000 March 312802450 April 364003000 May 441603900 June 424003740\begin{array} { l r r } \text { Month } & \text { Cost } & \text { Hours } \\\text { January } & \$ 40000 & 3500 \\\text { February } & 24400 & 2000 \\\text { March } & 31280 & 2450 \\\text { April } & 36400 & 3000 \\\text { May } & 44160 & 3900 \\\text { June } & 42400 & 3740\end{array}
-Pam's Stables used two different independent variables (trainer hours and number of horses) in two different equations to evaluate the cost of training horses.The most recent results of the two regressions are as follows:
Trainer hours:
 Variable  Coefficient  StandardError -Value  Independent Variable $913.32$198.124.61 Constant  S20.90 $2.947.11\begin{array} { l r r r } \text { Variable } & \text { Coefficient } & \text { StandardError } & \text {-Value } \\ \text { Independent Variable } & \$ 913.32 & \$ 198.12 & 4.61 \\\text { Constant }& \text { S20.90 } & \$ 2.94 & 7.11 \end{array}
r2=0.56r ^ { 2 } = 0.56
Number of horses:
 Variable  Coefficient  StandardError -Value  Constant $4764.50$1073.094.44 Independent Variable $864.98$247.143.50r2=0.63\begin{array}{l}\begin{array}{lrrr}\text { Variable } & \text { Coefficient } & \text { StandardError } & \text {-Value } \\ \text { Constant } & \$ 4764.50 & \$ 1073.09 & 4.44 \\\text { Independent Variable } & \$ 864.98 & \$ 247.14 & 3.50\end{array}\\r^{2}=0.63\end{array}
What is the estimated total cost for the coming year if 16 000 trainer hours are incurred and the stable has 400 horses to be trained,based on the best cost driver?


A) $335 313.32
B) $350 756.50
C) $13 844 444.50
D) $99 929.09

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