Question Help Claudia's Foods produces frozen meals that it sells for $15 each. The company computes a new monthly fixed manufacturing overhead allocation rate based on the planned number of meals to be produced that month. Assume all costs and production levels are exactly as planned. The following data are from Claudia's Foods's first month in business: (Click the icon to view the data.) Read the requirements. Requirement 1. Compute the product cost per meal produced under absorption costing and under variable costing. (Round your answers to the nearest cent.) Absorption costing Variable costing Total product cost per meal Requirement 2a. Prepare Claudia's Foods's January income statement using absorption costing. Claudia's Foods Income Statement (Absorption Costing) Month Ended January 31, 2018 Operating Income Requirement 2b. Prepare Claudia's Foods's January income statement using variable costing. Claudia's Foods Income Statement (Variable Costing) Month Ended January 31, 2018 Operating Income Requirement 3. Is operating income higher under absorption costing or variable costing in January? In January, absorption costing operating income variable costing operating income. i Data Table January 2018 Units produced and sold: Sales 1,150 meals Production 1,350 meals Variable manufacturing cost per meal $ 6 Sales commission cost per meal 3 Total fixed manufacturing overhead 540 Total fixed selling and administrative costs 400 Print Done