Tessmer Kennel Uses Tenant-Days as Its Measure of Activity; an Animal

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Tessmer Kennel uses tenant-days as its measure of activity; an animal housed in the kennel for one day is counted as one tenant-day. During January, the kennel budgeted for 3,100 tenant-days, but its actual level of activity was 3,090 tenant-days. The kennel has provided the following data concerning the formulas used in its budgeting and its actual results for January: Data used in budgeting:
Actual results for January:
The food and supplies in the flexible budget for January would be closest to:

• A) $32,945
• B) $32,590
• C) $32,380
• D) $33,050

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