Piper Company has two cost center service departments (Cafeteria and Human Resources) and two revenue/production departments (Machining and Assembly). The number of employees in each department follows.

DEPARTMENT NAME	# OF EMPLOYEES
CAFETERIA	40
HUMAN RESOURCES	60
MACHINING	200
ASSEMBLY	300

Piper Company uses the direct method of cost allocation and allocates cost on the basis of employees. If Human Resources cost amounts to $1,800,000, how much of the department's cost would be allocated to Machining?

Group of answer choices

$1,200,000.

$720,000.

$900,000.

$600,000