Bartow Corporation uses an activity based costing system to assign overhead costs to products. In the first stage, two overhead costs--equipment expense and indirect labor--are allocated to the three activity cost pools--Processing, Supervising, and Other--based on resource consumption. Data to perform these allocations appear below:

Overhead costs:
Equipment depreciation	$	29,000
Indirect labor	$	8,000

Distribution of Resource Consumption Across Activity Cost Pools:

	Activity Cost Pools
	Processing	Supervising		Other
Equipment expense	0.20	0.60		0.20
Indirect labor	0.50	0.30		0.20

In the second stage, Processing costs are assigned to products using machine-hours (MHs) and Supervising costs are assigned to products using the number of batches. The costs in the Other activity cost pool are not assigned to products. Activity data for the company's two products follow:

Activity:

	MHs (Machining)	Orders (Order Filling)
Product H3	6,700	700
Product O5	3,300	1,300
Total	10,000	2,000

The activity rate for the Processing activity cost pool under activity-based costing is closest to:

Multiple Choice

$0.58 per MH

$3.70 per MH

$5.71 per MH

$0.98 per MH