Alpha Corp. prices its products at full cost plus 25 percent. The company has two support departments and two producing departments. Budgeted costs and normal activity levels are as follows:

	Support Departments		Producing Departments
	S1	S2	P1	P2
Overhead costs	$15,000	$27,000	$250,000	$200,000
Square feet	900	1,100	4,000	8,000
Number of employees	12	28	100	80
Direct labor hours	-	-	9,000	10,000
Machine hours	-	-	12,000	8,000

S1 Department's costs are allocated based on square feet, and S2 Department's costs are allocated based on number of employees.

P1 Department uses direct labor hours to assign overhead costs to products and P2 Department uses machine hours.

Alpha manufactures Product X, each unit of which requires 5 direct labor hours in P1 Department and no time in P2 Department. Direct materials per unit of Product X cost $200, and direct labor is $110 per unit.

Determine the selling price of Product X, if the direct method of allocation is used and the company follows its usual pricing policy.

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