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University Printers has two service departments (Maintenance and Personnel) and two operating departments (Printing and Developing). Management has decided to allocate maintenance costs on the basis of machine-hours in each department and personnel costs on the basis of labor-hours worked by the employees in each The following data appear in the company records for the current period: Maintenance Personnel 1,500 Machine-hours Labor-hours Department direct costs Printing 1,500 500 $16,000 Developing 4,500 3,500 $13,300 500 $4,800 $14,800 Required: Allocate the service department costs using the step method, starting with the Maintenance Department. (Negative amounts should be indicated by a minus sign. Do not round Intermediate calculations.) Maintenance Personnel Printing Developing Service department costs Maintenance Personnel Total costs allocated 0 $ 0 $ ols 0 $