King Khan Corporation (KKC) manufactures kongs and kangs, the production of which requires considerable energy. Power generation department costs amounted to $4 million this month, for a total of 50 million kilowatt hours (kwh) supplied to the plant. Analysis shows that 40% of power generation costs are fixed. This month the Kang Dept. made 5 million kangs, each using 4 kwh, and the Kang Dept. made 4 million kangs, each using 6 kwh. If KKC uses the simplest algorithm to allocate power costs, which is not true?
A) Kong will be charged $1.6 million
B) Kang will be charged $2.18 million
C) Kang's charge will depend on Kong's usage
D) Since the production departments consume the vast majority of the plant's power costs, it is not cost-efficient to allocate power costs to the service departments
E) All are true
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