Sebastian Company manufactures and sells sportswear products. Sebastian uses activity-based costing to determine the cost of the customer return processing and shipping activities. The customer return processing activity has an activity rate of $60 per return, and the shipping activity has an activity rate of $20 per shipment. Sebastian shipped 4,000 units of Product 1 in 800 shipments (some shipments are more than one unit). There were 90 returns. What is the per-unit customer cost for the combined shipping and return activities of Product 1? a.$1.38 per unit b.$80 per unit c.$5.35 per unit d.$359.55 per unit

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Sebastian Company manufactures and sells sportswear products. Sebastian uses activity-based costing to determine the cost of the customer return processing and shipping activities. The customer return processing activity has an activity rate of $60 per return, and the shipping activity has an activity rate of $20 per shipment. Sebastian shipped 4,000 units of Product 1 in 800 shipments (some shipments are more than one unit). There were 90 returns. What is the per-unit customer cost for the combined shipping and return activities of Product 1?
a.$1.38 per unit
b.$80 per unit
c.$5.35 per unit
d.$359.55 per unit 
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