Blossom Inc. is a distributor and processor of a variety of different blends of coffee. The company buys coffee beans from around the world and roasts, blends, and packages them for resale. Blossom Inc. currently offers 10 different coffees in 500-gram bags to gourmet shops. The major cost is raw materials; however, there is a substantial amount of manufacturing overhead in the mostly automated roasting and packing process. The company uses relatively little direct labour. Some of the coffees are very popular and sell in large volumes, while a few of the newer blends have very low volumes, Blossom Inc. prices its coffee at total product costs, including allocated overhead, plus a markup of 25%. If prices for certain coffees are significantly higher than market, the prices are adjusted lower. Data for the 2022 budget include manufacturing overhead of $3.4 million, which has been allocated in the existing costing system based on each product's budgeted direct labour cost. The budgeted direct labour cost for 2022 totals $680,000. Purchases and use of materials (mostly coffee beans) are budgeted to total $6 million The budgeted prime costs for 500-gram bags of two of the company's products are as follows: Mocha Vanilla Direct materials $3.20 $2.80 Direct labour $0.25 $0.25 Data for the 2022 production of Mocha and Vanilla coffee are as follows. There will be no beginning or ending materials inventory for either of these coffees. Mocha Vanilla Expected sales 50,000 kilograms 1,000 kilograms Batch size 50,000 kilograms 250 kilograms Set-ups 3 per batch 3 per batch Purchase order size 12,500 kilograms 250 kilograms Roasting time 1 hour/50 kg 1.00 hour/50 kg Blending time 0.50 hour/50 kg 0.50 hour/50 kg Packaging time 0.10 hour/50 kg 0.10 hour/50 kg Blossom's controller believes the traditional costing system may be providing misleading cost information. He has developed an activity-based analysis of the 2022 budgeted manufacturing overhead costs shown in the following table: Activity Pools Cost Drivers Budgeted Units Budgeted Cost Purchasing Purchase orders 1,100 $ 550.000 Material handling Set-ups 1,700 586.500 Quality control Batches 500 140,000 Roasting Roasting hours 96,000 960,000 Blending Blending hours 22.200 444,000 Packaging Packaging hours 29.000 725.000 Total manufacturing overhead cost $ 3.405,500 Calculate the company's 2022 budgeted manufacturing overhead rate using direct labour costs as the single rate and the 2022 budgeted costs and selling prices of 500 grams of Mocha coffee and 500 grams of Vanilla coffee. (Round intermediate calculations and final answers to 2 decimal places, eg. 15.25.) Overhead rate % of direct labour cost Mocha Vanilla Selling price $ $ a. Determine the company's predetermined overhead rate using direct-labor cost as the single cost driver. b. Determine the full product costs and selling prices of one pound of Kona coffee and one pound of Malaysian coffee. Develop a new product cost, using an activity-based costing approach, for one pound of Kona cof- fee and one pound of Malaysian coffee. What are the implications of the activity-based costing system with respect to a. The use of direct labor as a basis for applying overhead to products? b. The use of the existing product-costing system as the basis for pricing