An activity based costing system is used at Haldeman, SA to assign products overhead costs. First, the two overhead costs of Equipment depreciation and Water expense are allocated to three activity cost pools - Handling, Machining, and Other - based on resource consumption. The information used to perform these allocations is below:

Overhead Costs:

• Equipment depreciation: $50,000
• Water expense: $60,000

Distribution of Resource Consumption across Activity Cost Pools:

Overhead Cost	Activity Cost Pools
	Handling	Machining	Other
Equipment depreciation	0.28	0.34	0.38
Water expense	0.32	0.22	0.46

The second stage of allocation is done by assigning the Handling costs to products on the basis of orders filled while products are assigned Machining costs based on machine hours. Costs assigned to the Other activity pool are not further assigned to products. Activity information for Haldeman's only two products is below:

	orders filled	machine hours
Product LS-157:	3,400	3,400
Product XR-2:	3,800	2,300
Total:	7,200	5,700

PART A:

How much overhead cost is assigned to the Handling activity cost pool under activity based costing in the first stage of allocation?Answer $33,200$29,200$16,800$14,000$13,200

PART B:

The activity rate for the Handling activity cost pool under activity based costing is closest to:Answer $4.61$2.32$2.95$3.86$2.67