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The Saint Lucla Blood Bank, a prlvate charity partly supported by government grants, is located on the Carlobean Island of Saint Lucla.

The blood bank has just finished its operations for September, which was a very busy month due to a powerful hurricane that hit

nelghboring islands causing many injurles. The hurricane largely bypassed Saint Lucla, but residents of Saint Lucla willingly donated

thelr blood to help people on other islands. As a consequence, the blood bank collected and processed over $20\%$ more blood than

had been originally planned for the month.

A report prepared by a government officlal comparing actual costs to budgeted costs for the blood bank appears below. Continued

support from the government depends on the blood bank's ablity to demonstrate control over its costs.

The managing director of the blood bank was very unhappy with this report, claiming that his costs were higher than expected due to

the emergency on the neighboring islands. He also pointed out that the additional costs had been fully covered by payments from

grateful reciplents on the other islands. The government official who prepared the report countered that all of the figures had been

submitted by the blood bank to the government, he was just pointing out that actual costs were a lot higher than promised in the

budget.

The following cost formulas were used to construct the planning budget:

Required:

Complete the flexible budget performance report for September.

Note: Indicate the effect of each varlance by selecting $"$F$"$ for favorable, $"$U$"$ for unfavorable, and "None" for no effect $($le$.,$ zero

varlance$).$ Input all amounts as positive values.

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