Please answer the financial accounting question Brockwell Corporation has two products: X and Y. The annual production and sales ofProduct X is 3,000 units, and of Product Y is 2,500 units. The company traditionally usesdirect labor-hours as the basis for applying all manufacturing overhead to products.Product X requires 0.4 direct labor-hours per unit, and Product Y requires 0.8 directlabor-hours per unit. The total estimated overhead for the next period is $120,000. Thecompany is considering switching to an activity-based costing system for the purpose ofcomputing unit product costs for external reports.The new activity-based costing system has three overhead activity cost pools - Activity1, Activity 2, and General Factory with estimated overhead costs and expectedactivity as follows:Total Estimated Overhead Costs ($) Expected ActivityActivityActivity 1$35,000Activity 2$22,000General Factory $63,000Total$120,000Product X2,4003,0001,800What is the predetermined overhead rate (i.e., activity rate) for Activity 2 under theactivity-based costing system?a. $4.58b. $12.22c. $7.33d. $22.00

Step 1:The predetermined overhead rate of an activity or activity rate is the rate at which overhead…

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