Problem #$1$

Answer the following questions using the information below:

Merriman Company provides the following ABC costing information:

$\backslash$table$[[$Activities$,$Total Costs,Activity$-$cost drivers$],[$Account inquiry hours,$$400,000,10,000$ hours$],[$Account billing lines,$$280,000,4,000,000$ lines$],[$Account verification accounts,$$150,000,40,000$ accounts$],[$Correspondence letters,$$50,000,4,000$ letters$],[$Total costs,$$880,000,]]$

The above activities are used by Departments A and $B$ as follows:

$\backslash$table$[[,$Department A$,,$Department B$],[$Account inquiry hours,$2,000$ hours,,$4,000$ hours$],[$Account billing lines,$400,000$ lines,,$200,000$ lines$],[$Account verification accounts,$10,000$ accounts,$8,000$ accounts,$],[$Correspondence letters,$1,000$ letters,,$1,600$ letters$]]$

A$.$ How much of the account inquiry cost will be assigned to Department A$?$