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Bass Corporation manufactures two products: A and B. The total indirect manufacturing overhead resource costs of $91,700 have been assigned to four activity cost pools that use the attached cost drivers:

Required:

a. Compute the unit activity costs for each of the cost drivers listed.
b. Assign the overhead costs to products A and B using activity-based costing.

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