Table 122
the Daily Requirements for Highway Patrol Officers at Park

question 103

Multiple Choice

Table 12.2
The daily requirements for highway patrol officers at Park City over the week are:
$\begin{array} { | c | c | c | c | c | c | c | c | } \hline \text { Day } & \mathrm { M } & \mathrm { T } & \mathrm { W } & \mathrm { TH } & \mathrm { F } & \mathrm { S } & \mathrm { SU } \\\hline \text { Requirement } & 11 & 9 & 6 & 7 & 5 & 3 & 2 \\\hline\end{array}$
Each officer works five days a week and must have two consecutive days off.
-Use the information in Table 12.2. How much total slack is generated from the schedule?

• A) less than 9 days
• B) 10 days
• C) 11 days
• D) greater than 11 days

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Definitions:

Support Department Allocation Rate

A rate used to distribute the costs of support departments to producing or service departments based on their usage or consumption of support services.

Cost Drivers

Factors that cause variations in the cost of an activity or process, used in activity-based costing to allocate overhead costs more accurately.

Profit Center

A branch or division of a company that is directly responsible for generating a significant portion of the company's profits.

Support Department Allocations

The process of distributing the costs of support departments (e.g., human resources, maintenance) to producing departments based on their usage of services.