Given the Following Costs and Activity Observations for Pike Company's

question 32

Multiple Choice

Given the following costs and activity observations for Pike Company's utilities,use the high­low method to calculate Pike Company's variable utilities costs per machine hour.

• A)$0.10
• B)$0.19
• C)$0.21
• D)$0.27

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