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HomeLife Life Insurance Company has two service departments (actuarial and premium rating) and two production departments (advertising and sales). The distribution of each service departments efforts (in percentages) to the other departments is shown in the following table:

To
From Actuarial Premium Rating Advertising Sales
Actuarial 80 % 10 % 10 %
Premium 25 % 15 60
The direct operating costs of the departments (including both variable and fixed costs) are:

Actuarial $ 82,000
Premium rating 17,000
Advertising 62,000
Sales 42,000

1.

Determine the total cost allocated to the advertising and sales departments using the direct method.

2.

Determine the total cost allocated to advertising and sales using the step method.

3.

Determine the total cost allocated to advertising and sales using the reciprocal method. (Round your intermediate calculations to the nearest whole dollar and final answers to 2 decimal places.)

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