The Xtra Store has a Human Resources Department and a Janitorial Department that provide service to three sales departments. The Human Resources Department cost is allocated on the basis of employees, and the Janitorial Department cost is allocated on the basis of space. The following information is available: Human Resources Janitorial Sales #1 Sales #2 Sales #3
Budgeted cost $45,000 $30,000
Space in Square Feet 4,000 1,000 20,000 30,000 50,000
Number of employees 5 10 15 45 30

Using the step-down method and assuming that the Human Resources Department is allocated first, the amount of Human Resources cost allocated to Sales Department no. 2 is:

a. $13,500.
b. $20,250.
c. $19,286.
d. $21,316.
e. $22,500.

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two years ago, when picking flowers in the mountains back of yosemite valley; i found a book. it was blotted and storm-beaten, all of its outer pages were mealy and crumbly. the paper seemed to dissolve like the snow beneath which it had been buried, however, many of the inner pages were well preserved. and although all were more or less stained and torn; whole chapters were easily readable. this is the condition of the great open book of yosemite glaciers today, its granite pages have been torn and blurred by the same storms that wasted the castaway book.