Answer:
= $622.42 per inspection
Explanation:
Under activity-based costing method, overheads are charged to units produced using cost drivers unlike the traditional absorption costing where overhead are charged using volume-related bases only like direct labour hours.
Cost drivers are the most important factors that cause a change in the amount of overhead incurred. For example, an appropriate cost driver for ordering cost would be the number of orders processed. And this would be used to charged overhead among the products responsible for the overheads
Overheads Activity rate = Activity overhead / number of cost drivers
Activity rate for inspection = inspection cost/ Total number of batches
= $41,080/ (47+17) batches
= $622.42 per inspection