L07-4 Hickory Company manufactures two products14,000 units of Product Y and 6,000 units of Product Z. The company uses a plantwide overhead rate based on direct labor-hours. It is con- sidering implementing an activity-based costing (ABC) system that allocates all $684,000 of its manufacturing overhead to four cost pools. The following additional information is available for the company as a whole and for Products Y and Z: Activity Cost Pool Activity Measure Estimated Overhead Cost Expected Activity : Machining ............... Machine setups ...... Product design ........... General factory .......... Machine-hours Number of setups Number of products Direct labor-hours $200,000 $100,000 $84,000 $300,000 10,000 MHS 200 setups 2 products 12,000 DLHs 12,000 Activity-Based Costing: A Tool to Aid Decision Making Activity Measure Product Y 7,000 50 Product z 3,000 150 Machine-hours ........... Number of setups ......... Number of products ...... Direct labor-hours ........ 8,000 4,000 6. What is the activity rate for the General Factory activity cost pool? 7. Which of the four activities is a batch-level activity? Why? 8. Which of the four activities is a product-level activity? Why? 9. Using the ABC system, how much total manufacturing overhead cost would be assigned to Product Y? 10. Using the ABC system, how much total manufacturing overhead cost would be assigned to Product Z