Dewey, Cheatham, and How, Attorneys-At-Law, Specialize in Three Areas: Criminal

question 22

Multiple Choice

Dewey, Cheatham, and How, Attorneys-at-Law, specialize in three areas: criminal, civil, and family law.When specifications for a new IT system were established, the partners agreed to allocate fixed costs based on gigabytes needed by each department.The criminal law division needed 40% of the capacity, civil law needed 35%, and family law needed 25%.Variable costs for the IT department are allocated on the amount of bandwidth used by each division used.The IT department's budgeted monthly fixed costs are $640,000, and the budgeted monthly variable costs are $160,000.The firm estimates that 8,000,000 gigabytes of computer time will be used in June.The criminal law division actually used 3,040,000 gigabytes of bandwidth during June.How much fixed IT costs will be allocated to the criminal law division during June?

• A)$256,000
• B)$240,000
• C)$512,000
• D)None of these answer choices are correct.

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