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Waiton Airlines is a small airline that occasionally carries overload shipments for the overnight delivery company Never-Fail, Incorporated. Never-Fail is a multimillion-dollar company started by Wes Never immediately after he failed to finish his first accounting course. The company's motto is "We Never-Fail to Deliver Your Package on Time." When Never-Fail has more freight than it can deliver, it pays Walton to carry the excess. Walton contracts with independent pilots to fly its planes on a per-trip basis. Waiton recently purchased an airplane that cost the company $5,566,000. The plane has an estimated useful life of 25,300,000 miles and a zero salvage value. During the first week in January. Walton flew two trips. The first trip was a round trip filight from Chicago to San Francisco, for which Walton paid $280 for the pilot and $230 for fuel. The second filght was a round trip from Chicago to New York. For this trip, it paid $230 for the pilot and $115 for fuel. The round trip between Chicago and San Francisco is approximately 4,600 miles and the round trip between Chicago and New York is 1,600 miles. Required a. Select if the costs mentioned below are direct or indirect. b. Determine the total cost of each trip. Complete this question by entering your answers in the tabs below. Select if the costs mentioned below are direct or indirect

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