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Gibson Company produces commercial gardening equipment. Since production is highly automated, the company allocates its overhead costs to product lines using activity-based costing. The costs and cost drivers associated with the four overhead activity cost pools follow: Production of 880 sets of cutting shears, one of the company's 20 products, took 160 labor hours and 6 setups and consumed 15 percent of the product-sustaining activities. Required a. Had the company used labor hours as a companywide allocation base, how much overhead would it have allocated to the cutting shears? b. How much overhead is allocated to the cutting shears using activity-based costing? c. Compute the overhead cost per unit for cutting shears first using activity-based costing and then using direct labor hours for allocation if 880 units are produced. If direct product costs are $110 and the product is priced at 25 percent above cost for what price would the product sell under each allocation system? Complete this question by entering your answers in the tabs below. Had the company used labor hours as a companywide allocation base, how much overhead would it have allocated to the cutting shears? How much overhead is allocated to the cutting shears using activyty-based costing? Note: Round intermediate calculations to 2 decimal places. Round your final answers to the nearest whole dollar amount. Complete this question by entering your answers in the tabs below. Compute the overhead cost per unit for cutting shears first using activity-based costing and then using direct labor hours for allocation if 880 units are produced. If direct product costs are $110 and the product is priced at 25 percent above cost for what price would the product sell under each allocation system? Note: Round intermediate calculations and final answers to 2 decimal places

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