Activity$-$based costing for a service company

Crosswinds Hospital plans to use activity$-$based costing to assign hospital indirect costs to the care of patients. The hospital has identified the

following activities and activity rates for the hospital indirect costs:

The activity usage information associated with the two patients is as follows:

a$.$ Determine the activity cost associated with each patient.

Abel Putin $

Cheryl Umit $

b$.$ Why is the total activity cost different for the two patients?

: apparently had a different condition that required more extensive treatment. Thus, the activity cost to

is

more than the activity cost of the other patient.