Piranej Health Company has two service departments actuarial and premium rating, and two operations departments marketing and sales. The distribution of each service department's efforts to the other departments is shown below:

FROM	TO
Actuarial	Rating	Marketing	Sales
Actuarial	0%	40%	20%	40%
Rating	25%	0%	37.5%	37.5%

The direct operating costs of the departments (including both variable and fixed costs) were as follows:

Actuarial	$ 35,000
Premium Rating	$ 20,000
Marketing	$ 35,000
Sales	$ 45,000

The total cost accumulated in the marketing department using the step method is (calculate all ratios and percentages to 4 decimal places, for example 33.3333%, and round all dollar amounts to the nearest whole dollar; assume the actuarial department goes first):

NOTE: You may wish to do this toward the end of the exam due to time involved.

a.

$55,000.

b.

$59,000.

c.

$80,000.

d.

$85,000.