Crosswinds Hospital plans to use activity$-$based costing to assign hospital indirect costs to the care of patients. The hospi activities and activity rates for the hospital indirect costs:

Activity

Activity Rate

Room and meals $$255$ per day

Radiology $$360$ per image

Pharmacy $$50$ per physician order

Chemistry lab $$101$ per test

Operating room $$700$ per operating room hour

The activity usage information associated with the two patients is as follows:

$\backslash$table$[[,$Abel Putin,Cheryl Umit$],[$Number of days,$6$ days,$11$ days$],[$Number of images,$4$ images,$6$ images$],[$Number of physician orders,$5$ orders,$7$ orders$],[$Number of tests,$3$ tests,$6$ tests$],[$Number of operating room hours,$3$ hours,$5\mathrm{.}5$ hours$]]$

a$.$ Determine the activity cost associated with each patient.

Abel Putin

Cheryl Umit

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b$.$ Why is the total activity cost different for the two patients?

$3$ more Check My Work uses remaining.

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