Green Thumb Gardening is a small gardening service that uses activity-based costing to estimate costs for pricing and other purposes. The proprietor of the company believes that costs are driven primarily by the size of customer lawns, the size of customer garden beds, the distance to travel to customers, and the number of customers. In addition, the costs of maintaining garden beds depends on whether the beds are low maintenance beds (mainly ordinary trees and shrubs) or high maintenance beds (mainly flowers and exotic plants). Accordingly, the company uses the five activity cost pools listed below:

The company has already completed its first stage allocations of costs and has summarized its annual costs and activity as follows:

Required:

Compute the activity rate for each of the activity cost pools.

Activity Measure Square feet of lawn Activity Cost Pool Caring for lawn Caring for garden beds-low maintenance low maintenance beds Square feet of Caring for garden beds-high maintenance Square feet of high maintenance beds Travel to jobs Miles Customer billing and service Number of customers