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The Ferre Publishing Company has three service departments and two operating departments. Selected data from a recent period on the five departments follow:

Service Departments Operating Departments
Administration Janitorial Maintenance Binding. Printing Total
Costs $140,000 $105,000 $48,000 $275,000 $430,000 $998,000
Number of-
employees 60 35 140 315 210 760
Square feet-
of space-
occupied 15,000 10,000 20,000 40,000 100,000 185,000
Hours of-
press time 30,000 60,000 90,000

The company allocates service department costs by the step-down method in the following order:
Administration (number of employees), Janitorial (space occupied), and Maintenance (hours of press time).
Required:
Using the step-down method, allocate the service department costs to the operating departments.

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