Your company is considering an expansion and preparing budgets with and without the expanded activities. You have been asked to predict the cost of shipping at several different activity levels. You believe pounds shipped is a good cost driver and you have gathered historical data from the last 6 accounting periods, as summarized in the following table:

Total cost of shipping Number of pounds shipped

Period 1 93740 25000

Period 2 75040 19500

Period 3 82350 22400

Period 4 82260 21300

Period 5 76800 19900

Period 6 89700 23800

You choose to use the High-Low method of estimating the fixed and variable components of a mixed cost. 1. What is the variable cost per pound? (Round to the nearest penny) 2. What is the fixed cost per period for shipping? (Round to the nearest dollar) 3. Use your results to predict the total cost of shipping in period 7 if 39000 pounds are expected.