Fogle florist specializes in large floral bouquets for


Fogle Florist specializes in large floral bouquets for hotels and other commercial spaces. The company has provided the following data concerning its annual overhead costs and its activity based costing system:

  Overhead costs:  
  Wages and salaries $82,000  
  Other expenses 74,000  
  Total

$156,000  

Distribution of resource consumption:

Activity Cost Pools  
    Making
Bouquets
Delivery Other Total
  Wages and salaries 45%     40%     15%     100%   
  Other expenses 35%     55%     10%     100%   

The "Other" activity cost pool consists of the costs of idle capacity and organization-sustaining costs.

The amount of activity for the year is as follows:

Activity Cost Pool Activity
  Making bouquets 73,020 bouquets  
  Delivery 16,800 deliveries  

What would be the total overhead cost per bouquet according to the activity based costing system? In other words, what would be the overall activity rate for the making bouquets activity cost pool? (Round to the nearest cent.)

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