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Skyline Florists uses an activity-based costing system to compute the cost of making floral bouquets and delivering the bouquets to its commercial customers. Company personnel who earn $180,000 typically perform both tasks; other firm-wide overhead is expected to total $70,000. These costs are allocated as follows:

Skyline anticipates making 20,000 bouquets and 4,000 deliveries in the upcoming year.
The cost of wages and salaries and other overhead that would be charged to each bouquet made is:
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| Particulars | Amount | 
| Wages and salaries allocated to Bouquet ($180,000 x 60%) | $108,000 | 
| Other overhead allocated to Bouquet ($70,000 x 50%) | 35,000 | 
| Total cost of Wages and salaries and Other overhead allocated to Bouquet | $143,000 | 
| Divide by: No. of units | 20,000 | 
| Cost of Wages and salaries and Other overhead charged to each Bouquet | $7.15 | 
$7.15 is the correct answer.