Calculating the Direct Labor Mix Variance

Mangia Pizza Company makes frozen pizzas that are sold through grocery stores. Mangia uses two types of direct labor: machine operators and packers. Mangia developed the following standard mix for spreading on premade pizza shells to produce $16$ giant$-$size sausage pizzas.

Direct Labor Mix Mix Proportion SP Standard

Cost

Machine operators $0\mathrm{.}5$ hr$.0\mathrm{.}50$ $$16$ $ $8$

Packers $0\mathrm{.}50\mathrm{.}50126$

Total $1\mathrm{.}0$ hr$.$ $$14$

Mangia's recent batch $($designed to produce $400$ pizzas$)$ used $400$ direct labor hours. Of the total, $160$ were for machine operators, and the remaining $240$ hours were for packers. The actual yield was $780$ pizzas.

Required:

$1.$ Calculate the standard mix $($SM$)$ in hours for machine operators and for packers.

SM

Machine operators fill in the blank $1$ hours

Packers fill in the blank $2$ hours

$2.$ Calculate the mix variance.

$fill in the blank $3$

$3.$ Calculate the actual proportion of hours worked by machine operators and by packers. Enter the percentages as whole numbers.

Actual mix proportion

Machine operators fill in the blank $5\%$

Packers fill in the blank $6\%$

Using the results, would the direction of the mix variance be favorable or unfavorable?