Cardinal Industries purchased a generator that cost $11,000. It has an estimated life of five years and a residual value of $1,000. It is estimated that it will be good for 5,000 hours. Compute the depreciation expense for the first year using the units-of-activity method of depreciation assuming the generator was used for 1,040 hours.

a. $2,288 b. $208 c. $2,080 d. $2,000