Answer:
c. all overhead costs are first directly traced to support and production departments and then support department costs are allocated to production departments
Explanation:
This means that multiple production rates are as a result of trying to include every cost that are directly and indirectly linked with production outputs( in this case the overhead costs). In this arrangement, production overhead costs or overhead costs that can be directly linked with production outputs are accounted for first before costs overhead costs from support departments that can be linked with products albeit indirectly are accounted for in deriving full overhead cost of products