Solomon Educational Services had budgeted its training service charge at $$78$ per hour. The company planned to provide $40,000$ hours of training services during Year $3.$ By lowering the service charge to $$62$ per hour, the company was able to increase the actual number of hours to $41,000.$

Required

a$.$ Determine the sales volume variance, and indicate whether it is favorable $($F$)$ or unfavorable $($U$).($Select "None" if there is no effect $($i$.$e$.,$ zero variance$).)$

b$.$ Determine the flexible budget variance, and indicate whether it is favorable $($F$)$ or unfavorable $($U$).($Select "None" if there is no effect $($i$.$e$.,$ zero variance$).)$

c$.$ Did lowering the price of training services increase revatenue?

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