Mist, Inc. provides free meals in an employee cafeteria for its employees. The employee cafeteria budgeted $32 of variable expenses per employee for the month of December, calculated using a budgeted average of 1,650 employees. During December, an average of 1,630 employees were actually working in the various operating departments. The actual variable expenses incurred by the employee cafeteria totaled $54,200 for the month. For performance evaluation purposes at the end of December, how much variable expenses from the cafeteria should Mist, Inc. charge to the operating departments? Multiple Choice $54,852 $54,200 $52.360
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![Mist, Inc. provides free meals in an employee cafeteria for its employees. The employee cafeteria budgeted $32 of variable expenses per employee for
the month of December, calculated using a budgeted average of 1,650 employees. During December, an average of 1,630 employees were actually
working in the various operating departments. The actual variable expenses incurred by the employee cafeteria totaled $54,200 for the month. For
performance evaluation purposes at the end of December, how much variable expenses from the cafeteria should Mist, Inc. charge to the operating
departments?
Multiple Choice
$54,852
$54,200
$52.160
$52,800](/v2/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcontent.bartleby.com%2Fqna-images%2Fquestion%2F2dbf006d-2ce6-4ce9-9bb1-bbf4d38363d2%2Fe6e572e6-8074-47a6-ae04-bdce966e024b%2F2ttiva89_processed.jpeg&w=3840&q=75)
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