Question

Due to evaporation during production, X-treme Building Styrofoam Company requires 4 pounds of material input for every 1 pounds of styrofoam sheets manufactured. During March, the company produced 3,950 pounds of good sheets.Required: Compute the total standard allowed input quantity. given the good output produced.

Answer 1

The total standard allowed input quantity given the good output produced is 15,800 pounds.

Step-by-step explanation:

From the question, for every 4 pounds of material input, 1 pounds of styrofoam sheets is manufactured. This means that to produce x pound of good sheet, 4 times x material input would be required.

Therefore for the company to have produced 3,950 pounds of good sheets,

The material input

= 4 × 3950

= 15,800 Pounds

The company would have used 15,800 Pounds to produce 3950 pounds of good sheets. As such, the total standard allowed input quantity given the good output produced is 15,800 pounds.