Riverside Florists Uses an Activity-Based Costing System to Compute the Cost

Multiple Choice

Riverside Florists uses an activity-based costing system to compute the cost of making floral bouquets and delivering the bouquets to its commercial customers. Company personnel who earn $180,000 typically perform both tasks; other firm-wide overhead is expected to total $70,000. These costs are allocated as follows: $\begin{array}{llll}&\text { Bouquet }\\&\text { Production }&\text {Delivery }&\text {Other }\\\text { Wages and salaries } & 60 \% & 30 \% & 10 \% \\\text { Other overhead } & 50 \% & 35 \% & 15 \%\end{array}$ Riverside anticipates making 20,000 bouquets and 4,000 deliveries in the upcoming year.
The cost of wages and salaries and other overhead that would be charged to each delivery is closest to:

A) $19.63.
B) $20.31.
C) $26.75.
D) $40.63.
E) None of the other answers is correct.