Crane, Inc. makes and sells a single product, buckets. It takes 20 ounces of plastic to make one bucket. Budgeted production of buckets for the next three months is as follows: August 85000 units, September 70000 units, October 60000 units. The company wants to maintain monthly ending inventories of plastic equal to 10% of the following month's production needs. On August 31, 190000 ounces of plastic were on hand. The cost of plastic is $0.02 per gram. How much is the ending inventory of plastic to be reported on the company’s balance sheet at September 30? $2400 $120000 $7000 $2800

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Crane, Inc. makes and sells a single product, buckets. It takes 20 ounces of plastic to make one bucket. Budgeted production of buckets for the next three months is as follows: August 85000 units, September 70000 units, October 60000 units. The company wants to maintain monthly ending inventories of plastic equal to 10% of the following month's production needs. On August 31, 190000 ounces of plastic were on hand. The cost of plastic is $0.02 per gram. How much is the ending inventory of plastic to be reported on the company’s balance sheet at September 30?
$2400
$120000
$7000
$2800
 
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