ABC Company has two products: A and B. The company uses activity-based costing. The estimated total cost and expected activity for each of the company's three activity cost pools are as follows: Expected activity cost
Activity Estimated cost Product A Product B Total
Activity1 $22,000 400 100 500
Activity2 $16,240 380 200 580
Activity3 $14,600 500 250 750

The activity rate under the activity-based costing system for Activity 3 is closest to:

a. $70.45.
b. $28.87.
c. $19.47.
d. $58.40.

Haley photocopying purchases a paper from an out-of-state vendor. average weekly demand for paper is 150 cartons per week for which haley pays $15 per carton. in bound shipments from the vendor average 1000 cartoons with an average lead time of 3 weeks. haley operates 52 weeks per year; it carries a 4-week supply of inventory as safety stock and no anticipation inventory. the vendor has recently announced that they will be building a faculty near haley photocopying that will reduce lead time to one week. further, they will be able to reduce shipments to 200 cartons. haley believes that they will be able to reduce safety stock to a 1-week supply. what impact will these changes make to haley’s average inventory level and its average aggregated inventory value?