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Service Department Charges and Activity Bases Midder Corporation, a manufacturer of electronics and communications systems, uses a service department charge system to charge profit centers with Computing and Communications Services (CCS) service department costs. The following table identifies an abbreviated list of service categories and activity bases used by the CCS eepartment. The table also includes some assumed cost and activity base quantity information for each service for October. One of the profit centers for Middier Corporation is the Communication Systems (COMM) sector. Assume the following information for the comM sector: - The sector has 4,000 employees, of whom \40 are office employees. - All the office employees have been issued a smartphone, and \70 of them have a computer on the network. - 90 percent of the emplovees with a computer also have an e mail account. - The average number of help desk calls for October was 1 call per individual with a computer. - There are 210 additional printers, servers, and peripherais on the network bevond the personal computers. a. Determine the service charge rate for the four CCS service categories for Octobec Round your answers to two decimal places. - The average number of help desk calis for October was 1 call per individual with a computer, - There are 210 additional printers, servers, and peripherals on the network beyond the personal computers. a. Determine the service charge rate for the four CCS service categories for October. Round your answers to two decimal places. b. Determine the charges to the COMM sector for the four CCS service categories for October. Round your answers to the nearest dollar ameunt. ronack work a. Divide the budgeted cost by the budgeted act vily bose quantity for each category. b. Dutermine the Help desk charge by multiplying the rate from (a) by the number of employees times the percentage of ofice employees times the percontage wiz a computar times the number of cals. Folow a similar process for each of the other three casegories