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Green Thumb Gardening is a small gardening service that uses activity-based costing to estimate costs for pricing and other purposes. The proprietor of the company believes that costs are driven primarily by the size of customer lawns, the size of customer garden beds, the distance to travel to customers, and the number of customers. In addition, the costs of maintaining garden beds depends on whether the beds are low maintenance beds (mainly ordinary trees and shrubs) or high maintenance beds (mainly flowers and exotic plants). Accordingly, the company uses the five activity cost pools listed below:

 

Activity Cost Pool Activity Measure
Caring for lawn Square feet of lawn
Caring for garden beds–low maintenance Square feet of low maintenance beds
Caring for garden beds–high maintenance Square feet of high maintenance beds
Travel to jobs Miles
Customer billing and service Number of customers
 

 

The company already has completed its first-stage allocations of costs and has summarized its annual costs and activity as follows:

 

Activity Cost Pool Estimated
Overhead
Cost
Expected Activity
Caring for lawn $ 81,800 165,000 square feet of lawn
Caring for garden beds–low maintenance $ 34,400 27,000 square feet of low maintenance beds
Caring for garden beds–high maintenance $ 56,070 21,000 square feet of high maintenance beds
Travel to jobs $ 3,800 18,000 miles
Customer billing and service $ 7,900 26 customers
 

 

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Compute the activity rate for each of the activity cost pools. (Round your answers to 2 decimal places.)

 
 
Activity Cost Pool Activity Rate  
Caring for lawn   per square ft of lawn
Caring for garden beds—low maintenance   per square ft of low maintenance beds
Caring for garden beds—high maintenance   per square ft of high maintenance beds
Travel to jobs   per mile
Customer billing and service   per customer

 

 

 

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