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Calculating ABC Unit Costs
Community Credit Union has collected the following information for four activities and two types of credit cards:
Activity | Driver | Classic | Gold | Activity Rate |
Processing transactions | Transactions processed | 20,000 | 12,000 | $0.20 |
Preparing statements | Number of statements | 20,000 | 12,000 | 0.85 |
Answering questions | Number of calls | 40,000 | 60,000 | 2.00 |
Providing ATMs | ATM transactions | 80,000 | 24,000 | 1.80 |
There are 12,500 holders of Silver cards and 50,000 holders of Premium cards.
Required:
Calculate the unit cost (rounded to the nearest cent) for Silver and Premium credit cards.
Unit cost for Silver | $ |
Unit cost for Premium | $ |
Total cost | |||||
Driver | Classic | Gold | Activity Rate | Classic | Gold |
Transactions processed | 20,000 | 12,000 | 0.20 | $ 4,000 | $ 2,400 |
Number of statements | 20,000 | 12,000 | 0.85 | $ 17,000 | $ 10,200 |
Number of calls | 40,000 | 60,000 | 2.00 | $ 80,000 | $ 1,20,000 |
ATM transactions | 80,000 | 24,000 | 1.80 | $ 1,44,000 | $ 43,200 |
Total cost for the cards | $ 2,45,000 | $ 1,75,800 | |||
Number of cards | $ 12,500 | $ 50,000 | |||
Unit cost | $ 19.60 | $ 3.52 | |||
Unit costs for the two cards are $19.60 and $3.52. | |||||
PLEASE NOTE THAT THE NAMES OF THE CARDS IN COLUMN 4 & 5 OF THE TABLE ARE GIVEN | |||||
AS CLASSIC AND GOLD; BUT MENTIONED AS SILVER AND PLATINUM THEREAFTER. | |||||
PLEASE USE NAMES APPROPRIATELY IN THE ANSWER, AFTER CHECKING WHICH IS CORRECT. |