Chillicothe meat company produces one of the best sausage products in southern ohio. the company’s controller used the account-classification method to compile the following information. required: 1. classify each cost item as variable, fixed, or semivariable. 2. write a cost formula to express the cost behavior of the firm’s production costs. (use the formula y = a + bx, where y denotes production cost and x denotes quantity of sausage produced.)