Dilloo Company Uses an Activity-Based Costing System with Three Activity

question 5

Multiple Choice

Dilloo Company uses an activity-based costing system with three activity cost pools. The company has provided the following data concerning its costs and its activity based costing system: The "Other" activity cost pool consists of the costs of idle capacity and organization-sustaining costs.
You have been asked to complete the first-stage allocation of costs to the activity cost pools.
-How much cost, in total, would be allocated in the first-stage allocation to the Order Size activity cost pool?

• A) $271,000
• B) $280,500
• C) $297,000
• D) $264,000

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