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7. Nichols Inc, manufactures remote controls. Currently the company uses a plant-wide rate for allocating manufacturing overhead. The plant manager is considering switching-over to ABC costing system and has asked the accounting department to identify the primary production activities and their cost drivers which are as follows: Activities Cost driver Material handling Number of parts Assembly Labor hours Inspection Time at inspection station Allocation Rate $2 per part $10 per hour $20 per minute The current traditional cost method allocates overhead based on direct manufacturing labor hours using a rate of $600 per labor hour. What are the indirect manufacturing costs per remote control assuming an activity-based-costing method is used and a batch of 100 remote controls are produced? The batch requires 460 parts, 5 direct manufacturing labor hours, and 18 minutes of inspection time