Question

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.

Answer 1

Answer: 54,000 meters

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