Henderson Industrial Products Uses a Centralized Service Department for Procurement $\text { Construction Division }$

Multiple Choice

Henderson Industrial Products uses a centralized service department for procurement of raw materials, servicing all three of its divisions: Construction, Manufacturing, and Military. The Construction Division has been allocated a total of $192,000 of costs from the procurement department. Of that amount, $144,000 is considered traceable to the three product types within the division: Civil Construction, Residential Construction, and Commercial Construction. The traceable amounts are further allocated to the three product types within the division as shown here: $\text { Construction Division }$
$\begin{array}{|l|r|r|r|}\hline\text { Product lines } & \text { Revenues } & \text { Variable } & \text { Assigned Costs }\\&&\text { Expenses }\\\hline \text { Civil } & \$ 36,000 & \$ 24,000 & \$ 20,250 \\\hline \text { Residential } & \$ 98,000 & \$ 41,000 & \$ 40,500 \\\hline \text { Commerdal } & \$ 216,000 & \$ 60,000 & \$ 83,250 \\\hline \text { Total } & \$ 350,000 & \$ 125,000 & \$ 144,000 \\\hline\end{array}$

-The above information is used to complete a performance report, the divisional income statement, for the Construction Division. On that report, the product margin for the Commercial Construction product type is:

A) $44,875.
B) $17,250.
C) $72,750.
D) ($13,500) .