Mercury Corporation has provided the following data from its activity-based costing accounting system:

Activity Cost Pools Total Cost Total Activity

Design Product Costs....... $ 1,526,916 8,436 product design hours

Setting up batches ........... $ 15,580 380 batch set-ups

Assembling Products......... $ 39,900 3,990 assembly hours

The activity rate for the "designing products" activity cost pool is:

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