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Dideda Company uses an activity-based costing system with three activity cost pools. The company has provided the following data concerning its costs and its activity-based costing system:

Costs:
Manufacturing overhead	$340,000
Selling and administrative expenses	250,000
Total	$590,000

Distribution of Resource Consumption:

	Activity Cost Pools
	Order Size	Customer Support	Other	Total
Manufacturing overhead	25%	50%	25%	100%
Selling and administrative expenses	60%	30%	10%	100%

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Dideda Company uses an activity-based costing system with three activity cost pools. The company has provided the following data concerning its costs and its activity-based costing system:

Costs:
Manufacturing overhead	$340,000
Selling and administrative expenses	250,000
Total	$590,000

Distribution of Resource Consumption:

	Activity Cost Pools
	Order Size	Customer Support	Other	Total
Manufacturing overhead	25%	50%	25%	100%
Selling and administrative expenses	60%	30%	10%	100%

The "Other" activity cost pool consists of the costs of idle capacity and organization-sustaining costs. You have been asked to complete the first-stage allocation of costs to the activity cost pools.

How much cost, in total, would be allocated in the first-stage allocation to the Customer Support activity cost pool?

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$120,000

$255,000

$245,000

$390,000