Hochberg Corporation uses an activity based costing system with the following three activity cost pools:

Activity Cost Pool

Total Activity

Fabrication

30,000 machine hours

Order processing

300 orders

Other

Not applicable

The Other activity cost pool is used to accumulate costs of idle capacity and organization sustaining costs.

The company has provided the following data concerning its costs:

Wages and salaries

$340,000

Depreciation

160,000

Occupancy

220,000

Total

$720,000

The distribution of resource consumption across activity cost pools is given below:

 

Activity Cost Pools

 

Fabrication

Order Processing

Other

Total

Wages and salaries

30%

60%

10%

100%

Depreciation

15%

50%

35%

100%

Occupancy

15%

55%

30%

100%

The activity rate for the Fabrication activity cost pool is closest to:

A) $5.30 per machine hour

B) $3.60 per machine hour

C) $7.20 per machine hour

D) $4.80 per machine hour