Damson Ltd manufactures construction hydraulic lifts and uses budgeted machine-hours to allocate variable manufacturing overhead. The following information pertains to the company's manufacturing overhead data: Budgeted output units 40,000 units Budgeted machine-hours 10,000 hours Budgeted variable manufacturing overhead costs for 40,000 units $310,000 Actual output units produced 36,500 units Actual machine-hours used 14,600 hours Actual variable manufacturing overhead costs $350,400 What is the budgeted variable overhead cost rate per output unit? A) $9.60 B) $12.40 C) $7.75 D) $31.00