Green Thumb Gardening is a small gardening service that uses activity-based costing to estimate costs...

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Green Thumb Gardening is a small gardening service that uses activity-based costing to estimate costs for pricing and other purposes. The proprietor of the company believes that costs are driven primarily by the size of customer lawns, the size of customer garden beds, the distance to travel to customers, and the number of customers. In addition, the costs of maintaining garden beds depends on whether the beds are low maintenance beds (mainly ordinary trees and shrubs) or high maintenance beds (mainly flowers and exotic plants). Accordingly, the company uses the five activity cost pools listed below:
\table[[Activity Cost Pool,Activity Measure],[Caring for lawn,Square feet of lawn],[Caring for garden beds-low maintenance,Square feet of low maintenance beds],[Caring for garden beds-high maintenance,Square feet of high maintenance beds],[Travel to jobs,Miles],[Customer billing and service,Number of customers]]
The company already has completed its first stage allocations of costs and has summarized its annual costs and activity as follows:
\table[[,Estimated Overhead,Expected Activity],[Activity Cost Pool,Cost,150,000 square feet of lawn],[Caring for lawn,$72,000,20,000 square feet of low maintenance beds],[Caring for garden beds-low maintenance,$26,400,15,000 square feet of high maintenance beds],[Caring for garden beds-high maintenance,$41,400,12,500 miles],[Travel to jobs,$3,250,25 customers]]
Required:
Compute the activity rate for each of the activity cost pools. (Round your answers to 2 decimal places except customer billing and service.)
\table[[Activity Cost Pool,Activity Rate,],[Caring for lawn,,per square feet of lawn],[Caring for garden beds-low maintenance,,per square feet of low maintenance beds],[Caring for garden beds-high maintenance,,per square feet of high maintenance beds],[Travel to jobs,,per mile],[Customer billing and service,per customer,]]
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