The following details relate to ready meals that are prepared by a food processing company:

Ready meal

P

Q

R

/meal

/meal

/meal

Selling price

5.00

3.00

4.00

Ingredients

2.00

1.00

1.30

Variable conversion costs

1.60

0.80

1.85

Fixed conversion costs*

0.50

0.30

0.60

Profit

0.90

0.90

0.65

Oven time (minutes per ready meal)

10

4

8

Each of the meals is prepared using a series of processes, one of which involves cooking the ingredients in a large oven. The availability of cooking time in the oven is limited and, because each of the meals requires cooking at a different oven temperature, it is not possible to cook more than one of the meals in the oven at the same time.

*The fixed conversion costs are general fixed costs that are not specific to any type of ready meal.

(a)Determine the priority of production of the three meals.3 marks