The Long Term Care Plus Company has two service departments — actuarial and premium rating, and two operations departments — marketing and sales. The distribution of each service department's efforts to the other departments is shown below:   FROM TO   Actuarial   Rating   Marketing   Sales Actuarial 0 %   40 %   20 %   40 % Rating 25 %   0 %   37.5 %   37.5 %     The direct operating costs of the departments (including both variable and fixed costs) were as follows:         Actuarial $ 60,000 Premium Rating $ 40,000 Marketing $ 60,000 Sales $ 70,000

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The Long Term Care Plus Company has two service departments — actuarial and premium rating, and two operations departments — marketing and sales. The distribution of each service department's efforts to the other departments is shown below:

 

FROM TO
  Actuarial   Rating   Marketing   Sales
Actuarial 0 %   40 %   20 %   40 %
Rating 25 %   0 %   37.5 %   37.5 %
 

 

The direct operating costs of the departments (including both variable and fixed costs) were as follows:

 

     
Actuarial $ 60,000
Premium Rating $ 40,000
Marketing $ 60,000
Sales $ 70,000
 

 

The total cost accumulated in the sales department using the step method is (calculate all ratios and percentages to 4 decimal places, for example 33.3333%, and round all dollar amounts to the nearest whole dollar; assume that the actuarial department goes first):

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