The Chicago power plant that services all manufacturing departments of MidWest Engineering has a budget for the coming year. This budget has been expressed in the following monthly$$ terms:

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The expected monthly costs for operating the power plant during the budget year are $ $19$ comma $500$: $ $3$ comma $000$ variable and $ $16$ comma $500$ fixed.

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Requirement $1.$ Assume that a single cost pool is used for the power plant costs. What budgeted amounts will be allocated to each manufacturing department if$($a$)$ the rate is calculated based on practical capacity and costs are allocated based on practical capacity and$($b$)$ the rate is calculated based on expected monthly usage and costsData table are allocated based on expected monthly$$ usage? $($Round the budgeted rate to the nearest$$ cent.$)$

$($a$)$

Budgeted rate per hour:

Livonia

Warren

Dearborn

Westland

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