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Rather Bedding Makes Two Types of Pillow-Down and Foam Using ABC, What Is the Cost Per Setup to Be

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Rather Bedding makes two types of pillow-down and foam. It is currently implementing an activity-based costing system. In the past, all overhead had been applied on the basis of machine hours. The company produces 6,000 down pillows and 18,000 foam pillows per year.
$\begin{array}{|l|c|c|c|c|}\hline\text { Cost Pool } & \begin{array}{c}\text { Driver and } \\\text { Level }\end{array} & \begin{array}{c}\text { Estimated } \\\text { Costs }\end{array} & \begin{array}{c}\text { Use of Driver by } \\\text { Down Pillows }\end{array} & \begin{array}{c}\text { Use of Driver by } \\\text { Foam Pillows }\end{array} \\\hline \text { Equiument setup } & 360 \text { setups } & \$ 216,000 & 120 \text { setups } & 240 \text { setups } \\\hline \text { Materials ordering } & 6,000 \text { orders } & \$ 60,000 & 2,400 \text { orders } & 3,600 \text { orders } \\\hline \text { Quality control }&2,000\text { inspections }&\$ 36,000 & 800 \text { inspections } & 1,200 \text { inspections }\\\hline \text { Machining }&\text { 8,000 machine hours }&\$86,000&\text { 4,200 machine hours }&\text { 3,800 machine hours }\\\hline\end{array}$
Using ABC, what is the cost per setup to be assigned to down pillows?

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