McDaniel Company manufactures 100-pound bags of fertilizer that have the following unit standard costs for direct materials and direct labor:

Direct materials (100 lbs. @ $1.00 per lb.)	$100.00
Direct labor (0.5 hours at $24 per hour)	12.00
Total standard prime cost per 100-lb. bag	$112.00

The following activities were recorded for October:

• 1,000 bags were manufactured.
• 95,000 lbs. of materials costing $76,000 were purchased.
• 102,500 lbs. of materials were used.
• $12,000 was paid for 475 hours of direct labor.

There were no beginning or ending work-in-process inventories.

Required:

A. Compute the direct materials variances.

Materials price variance	$fill in the blank 1	Favorable
Materials usage variance	$fill in the blank 3	Unfavorable

B. Compute the direct labor variances.

Labor rate variance	$fill in the blank 5	Unfavorable
Labor efficiency variance	$fill in the blank 7	Favorable