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Northwest Hospital is a full$-$service hospital providing everything from major surgery and emergency room care to outpatient clinics.

Required:

For each cost incurred at Northwest Hospital, indicate whether it would most likely be a direct cost or an indirect cost of the specified cost

object by placing an Xin the appropriate column.

Cost

Ex$.$ Catered food served to patlents

$1.$ The wages of pedlatric nurses

$2.$ Prescriptlon drugs

$3.$ Heating the hospital

$4.$ The salary of the head of pediatrics

$5.$ The salary of the head of pediatrics

$6.$ Hospital chaplain's salary

$7.$ Lab tests by outside contractor

$8.$ Lab tests by outside contractor

Cost Object

A partlcular patlent

The pedlatric department

A particular patlent

The pediatric department

The pediatric department

A partlcular pediatric patlent

A particular patient

A particular patient

A particular department

Direct Cost

X

Indirect Cost