A manufacturer produced 20,000 units during the month. During the same month, sales were 27,000 units. Costs for the month included:

	Variable	Fixed
Unit manufacturing costs of the period	$12.00	$6.00
Unit operating expenses of the period	4.00	1.50

Income from operations under absorption costing will be __________________ than income from operations under variable costing?

$42,000 less

$42,000 more

$52,500 more

$52,500 less

An explanation for it please, thank you