If the company (1) uses the step-down method (beginning with the Cafeteria) to allocate service department costs to operating departments, (2) allocates Cafeteria costs based on the number of employees, and (3) allocates Janitorial costs based on square feet of space of occupied, then the total service department costs allocated to the Lab Department is closest to:

What is the difference between total utility and marginal utility? a. marginal utility is subject to the law of diminishing marginal utility while total utility is not. b. total utility represents the consumer optimum while marginal utility gives the total utility per dollar spent on the last unit. c. total utility is the total amount of satisfaction derived from consuming a certain amount of a good while marginal utility is the additional satisfaction gained from consuming an additional unit of the good. d. marginal utility represents the consumer optimum while total utility gives the total utility per dollar spent on the last unit.