Question

Waterway Industries is planning to sell 800 buckets and produce 1080 buckets during March. Each bucket requires 200 grams of plastic and one-half hour of direct labor. Plastic costs $10 per 200 grams and employees of the company are paid $15 per hour. Manufacturing overhead is applied at a rate of 110% of direct labor costs. Waterway has 300 kilos of plastic in beginning inventory and wants to have 500 kilos in ending inventory. How much is the total amount of budgeted direct labor for March?

Answer 1

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Step-by-step explanation:

From the above,

One bucket requires;

200 grams of plastic and one half of direct labor

The plastic costs $10 per 200 grams and the employees are paid $15 per hour.

Therefore, one bucket costs (material and labor) :

= $10 + $15 × (1/2)hour = $17.5 per plus 1.10 × $7.50 = $25.75

For 1,080 buckets

$25.75 × 1,080 = $27,810

Therefore, the total amount of budgeted direct material for March is $27,810