Play Time manufactures video games that it sells for $$43$ each. The company uses a fixed manufacturing overhead allocation rate of $$6$ per game. Assume all costs and production levels are exactly as planned. The following data are from Play Time's first two months in business:

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Requirement $1.$ Compute the product cost per game produced under absorption costing and under variable costing.

$\backslash$table$[[,$October,November$],[,\backslash$table$[[$Absorption$],[$costing$]],\backslash$table$[[$Variable$],[$costing$]],\backslash$table$[[$Absorption$],[$costing$]],\backslash$table$[[$Variable$],[$costing$]]],[$Total product cost per game,,$\sqrt[\phantom{2}]{2},24,18]]$

Requirement $2$a$.$ Prepare monthly income statements for October and November, including columns for each month and a total column, using absorption costing.