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Sheridan Publishing identified the following overhead activities, their respective costs, and their cost drivers to produce the three types of textbooks the company publishes.

		Type of Textbook
Activity (Cost)	Cost Driver	Deluxe			Moderate			Economy
Machine maintenance ($420,000)	Number of machine hours	300			900			1,200
Setups ($790,000)	Number of setups	35			10			5
Packing ($198,000)	Number of cartons	10			40			60
Photo development ($440,000)	Number of pictures	3,500			1,500			500

Deluxe textbooks are made with the finest-quality paper, six-color printing, and many photographs. Moderate texts are made with three colors and a few photographs spread throughout each chapter. Economy books are printed in black and white and include pictures only in chapter openings. Required

1. Sheridan currently allocates all overhead costs based on machine hours. The company produced the following number of books during the prior year:

Deluxe	Moderate	Economy
60,000	180,000	240,000

Determine the overhead cost per book for each book type.

2. Determine the overhead cost per book, assuming that the volume-based allocation system described in Requirement a is replaced with an activity-based costing system.

(For all requirements, round your answers to 2 decimal places.)

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