Green Thumb Gardening is a small gardening service that uses activity-based costing to estimate costs for pricing and other purposes. The proprietor of the company believes that costs are driven primarily by the size of customer lawns, the size of customer garden beds, the distance to travel to customers, and the number of customers. In addition, the costs of maintaining garden beds depends on whether the beds are low maintenance beds (mainly ordinary trees and shrubs) or high maintenance beds (mainly flowers and exotic plants). Accordingly, the company uses the five activity cost pools listed below:

Exercise 7-3 Compute Activity Rates [LO7-3] Green Thumb Gardening is a small gardening service that uses activity-based costing to estimate costs for pricing and other purposes. The proprietor ofthe company believes that costs are driven primarily by the size of customer lawns, the size of customer garden beds, the distance to travel to customers, and the number of customers. In addition, the costs of maintaining garden beds depends on whether the beds are low maintenance beds (mainly ordinary trees and shrubs) or high maintenance beds (mainly flowers and exotic plants). Accordingly, the company uses the ve activity cost pools listed below: Activity Cost Pool Activity Measure Caring for lawn Square feet of lawn Caring for garden bedslow maintenance Square feet of low maintenance beds Caring for garden bedshigh maintenance Square feet of high maintenance beds Travel to jobs Miles Customer billing and service Number of customers [ The company already has completed its rst stage allocations of costs and has summarized its annual costs and activity as follows: Estimated Overhead Activity Cost Pool Cost Expected Activity Caring for lawn $84,200 190,000 square feet of lawn Caring for garden bedslow maintenance $36,800 25,000 square feet of low maintenance beds Caring for garden bedshigh maintenance $50,730 19,000 square feet of high maintenance beds Travel to jobs $ 3,400 16,000 miles Customer billing and service 5 7,100 34 customers I Required: Compute the activity rate for each of the activity cost pools. (Round your answers to 2 decimal places.) Caring for lawn _ per square ft of lawn Caring for garden bedslow maintenance _ per square ft of low maintenance beds Caring for garden bedshigh maintenance _ per square ft of high maintenance beds