Gore Range Carpet Cleaning is a family-owned business in Eagle-Vail. Colorado. For its services, the company has always charged a flat fee per hundred square feet of carpet cleaned. The current fee is $23.20 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 more 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, a simple system consisting of four activity cost pools seemed to be adequate. The activity cost pools and their activity measures appear below: The total cost of operating the company for the year is $353,000. which includes the following costs