Q 17.27: Big Red Company, a manufacturer of computer hardware components, uses direct labor cost to allocate its production overhead. In its hard-drive division, it allocates $12.50 per direct labor hour as the standard rate. The overhead includes supervision and machine setup cost. SCSI and SATA drives take the same time to produce, but the setup time for SATA is three times as long as the setup time for SCSI. The company will describe machine setup activity as a(n) ________ activity.

A : organization-level

B : product-level

C : batch-level

D : unit-level