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Escau Corporation is a wholesale distributor that uses activity-based costing for all of its overhead costs. The company has provided the following data concerning its annual overhead costs and its activity based costing system:

Overhead costs:
Wages and salaries $400,000
Other expenses 190,000
Total $590,000

Distribution of resource consumption:

Activity Cost Pools

Filling Orders Customer Support Other Total
Wages and salaries 25% 60% 15% 100%
Other expenses 40% 40% 20% 100%

The "Other" activity cost pool consists of the costs of idle capacity and organization-sustaining costs.

The activity measures for the activity cost pools for the year are as follows:

Activity Cost Pool Activity
Filling orders 3,900 orders
Customer support 20 customers

What would be the total overhead cost per order according to the activity based costing system? In other words, what would be the overall activity rate for the filling orders activity cost pool? (Round to the nearest whole cent.)

rev: 03_24_2015_QC_CS-11341

$42.14 per order

$40.64 per order

$45.13 per order

$50.77 per order

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