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Activity-Based Product Costing Suppose that a surgical ward has gathered the following information for four nursing activities and two types of patients: Patient Category Driver Normal Intensive Activity Rate Treating patients Treatments 7,400 $4.00 Providing hygienic care Hygienic hours 5.00 4,800 32,000 9,000 17,600 80,000 72,000 Requests Responding to requests Monitoring patients 2.00 3.00 Monitoring hours 6,000 Required: 1. Determine the total nursing costs assigned to each patient category. Costs Assigned Normal Intensive 2. Output is measured in patient days. Assuming that the normal patient category uses 8,000 patient days and the Intensive patient category uses 6.400 patient days calculate the nursing cost per patient day for each type of patient. Round your answers to the nearest cent. Normal per patient day Intensive per patient day 3. Conceptual Connection: The supervisor of the surgical ward has suggested that patient days is the only driver needed to assign nursing costs to each type of patient. Calculate the charge per patient day using this approach. Round your answer to the nearest cent. per patient day