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Moccasin Company manufactures cotton shirts. 18,000 shirts are produced during the first week of July. The unit quantity standard is 3 meters cloth per shirt and the actual quantity used was 0.50 meters per shirt. Determine the quantity of cloth that should be used for the actual output of 18,000 shirts.

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Answer: 54,000 meters

Step-by-step explanation:

When determining the quantity of cloth t be used in the making of the shirts, it is best to use the standard quantity because this is what the company thinks that it needs to be able to produce a shirt.

Quantity of cloth for 18,000 shirts:

= Number of shirts * standard quantity per shirt

= 18,000 * 3

= 54,000 meters

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