Panamint Systems Corporation is estimating activity costs associated with producing disk drives, tapes drives, and wire drives. The indirect labor can be traced to four separate activity pools. The budgeted activity cost and activity base data by product are provided below. Activity Cost Activity Base
Procurement $327,100 Number of purchase orders
Scheduling 241,400 Number of production orders
Materials handling 445,200 Number of moves
Product development 703,500 Number of engineering changes
Production 1,537,100 Machine hours

Number of Purchase Orders Number of Production Orders Number of Moves Number of Engineering Changes Machine Hours Number of Units
Disk drives 4,160 360 1,200 10 1,700 2,000
Tape drives 1,700 125 790 6 9,800 3,500
Wire drives 12,500 810 3,800 20 10,400 2,500

The activity rate for the materials handling cost pool is:

a. $188.19 per move
b. $76.22 per move
c. $17.5 per move
d. $65.74 per move