LPM Industries has two service departments (Administration and Maintenance) and two operating departments. Departmental costs before allocations are $950,000 for Administration and $1,650,000 for Maintenance. Maintenance costs are allocated on the basis of the number of employees. Administration has 450 employees; Maintenance has 750 employees; Operating Department 1 has 1,350 employees and Operating Department 2 has 1,200 employees. Using the step-down method, how much of the cost from the Maintenance Department will be allocated to Operating Department 2

Label each of the following statements true, false, or uncertain. explain your choice carefully. a. workers benefit equally from the process of creative destruction. b. in the past two decades, the real wages of low-skill u.s. workers have declined relative to the real wages of high-skill workers. c. technological progress leads to a decrease in employment if, and only if, the increase in output is smaller than the increase in productivity. d. the apparent decrease in the natural rate of unemployment in the united states in the second-half of the 1990s can be explained by the fact that productivity growth was unexpectedly high during that period.