Eccles Corporation uses an activity-based costing system with three activity cost pools. The company has provided the following data concerning its costs and its activity based costing system: Costs: Wages and salaries $285,000
Depreciation 243,000
Utilities 170,000
Total $698,000
Distribution of resource consumption:
Activity Cost Pools
Assembly Setting Up Other Total
Wages and salaries 20% 60% 20% 100%
Depreciation 15% 35% 50% 100%
Utilities 5% 55% 40% 100%
How much cost, in total, would be allocated in the first-stage allocation to the Assembly activity cost pool?
a. $ 144000
b. $ 96000
c. $ 36000
d. $ 105000

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two years ago, when picking flowers in the mountains back of yosemite valley; i found a book. it was blotted and storm-beaten, all of its outer pages were mealy and crumbly. the paper seemed to dissolve like the snow beneath which it had been buried, however, many of the inner pages were well preserved. and although all were more or less stained and torn; whole chapters were easily readable. this is the condition of the great open book of yosemite glaciers today, its granite pages have been torn and blurred by the same storms that wasted the castaway book.