Andover, Inc., has two producing departments. Each producing…

Andover, Inc., has two producing departments. Each producing department is held responsible for a share of the costs of a support department. Actual and budgeted data are as follows:   Support department hours used:       Department X 12,000     Department Y  4,000         Total hours 16,000     Support department costs:       Actual support department costs $48,000     Budgeted fixed department costs $20,000     Budgeted variable rate per hour $    2.50 ​ Normal support department usage is 8,000 hours each for Department X and Department Y. Assuming the direct method is used and the purpose is performance evaluation, support department costs allocated to Department X are