Benton Company is preparing its annual profit plan. As part of its analysis of the cost of its purchasing activity, management estimates that the $$48,000$ for purchasing support should be assigned to the individual vendors from the information given as follows:

$\backslash$table$[[$Units purchased,Vendor A$,$Vendor B$],[$Purchase orders $($annually$),100,000,200,000],[$Number of shipments received,$6,24]]$

What is the amount of the purchasing costs that should be allocated to Vendor $A,$ assuming Benton uses units purchased to compute activity$-$based costs?

Note: Do not round intermediate calculations.