Gallatin Carpet Cleaning is a small, family$-$owned business operating out of Bozeman, Montana. For its services, the company has always charged a flat fee per hundred square feet of carpet cleaned. The current fee is $$23\mathrm{.}75$ per hundred square feet. However, there is some question about whether the company is actually making any money on jobs for some customers$-$particularly those located on remote ranches that require considerable travel time. The owner's daughter, home for the summer from college, has suggested investigating this question using activity$-$based costing. After some discussion, she designed a simple system consisting of four activity cost pools. The activity cost pools and their activity measures appear below:

$\backslash$table$[[$Activity Cost Pool,Activity Measure,Activity for the Year$],[$Cleaning carpets,Square feet cleaned $(00$s$),6,000$ hundred square feet$],[$Travel to jobs,Miles driven,$273,000$ miles$],[$Job support,Number of jobs,$1,900$ jobs$],[$Other $($organization$-$sustaining costs and,,Not applicable$],[$idle capacity costs$),$None,Not$]]$

The total cost of operating the company for the year is $$350,000$ which includes the following costs:

$\backslash$table$[[$Wages$,$$$136,000$

Gallatin Carpet Cleaning is a small, family$-$owned business operating out of Bozeman, Montana. For its services, the company has always charged a flat fee per hundred square feet of carpet cleaned. The current fee is $$23\mathrm{.}75$ per hundred square feet. However, there is some question about whether the company is actually making any money on jobs for some customers$-$particularly those located on remote ranches that require considerable travel time. The owner's daughter, home for the summer from college, has suggested investigating this question using activity$-$based costing. After some discussion, she designed a simple system consisting of four activity cost pools. The activity cost pools and their activity measures appear below:

$\backslash$table$[[$Activity Cost Pool,Activity Measure,$],[$Cleaning carpets,Square feet cleaned $(00$s$),$Activity for the Year$],[$Travel to jobs,Miles driven,$6,000$ hundred square feet$],[$Job support,Number of jobs,$273,000$ miles$],[$Other $($organization$-$sustaining costs and,,$1,900$ jobs$],[$idle capacity costs$),$None,Not applicable$]]$

The total cost of operating the company for the year is $$350,000$ which includes the following costs:

$\backslash$table$[[$Wages$,$$$136,000$