DES Company manufactures folding chairs. Direct materials include hard plastic for the seat and back and metal beams for the legs. The standard cost sheet for a single chair includes the following direct materials information Last month, DES purchased 21,100 sheets of hard plastic at a cost of $56,548. The company also purchased 42,700 metal beams at a cost of $64,050. DES produced 10,700 chairs. There was no beginning or ending inventory of plastic sheets of metal beams during the month Required:
1. Compute the following for last month's operations at DES Company:
a. The price variance for hard plastic. Indicate whether the variance is favorable or unfavorable.
b. The price vatiance for metal beoms. Indicate whether the valiance is favorable or unfavorable
c. The total direct materials price variance. Indicate whether the variance is favorable or unfavorable.
d. The usage variances for hard plastic and metal beams, and the totaldirect materials usage variance. Indicate whether each variance is tavorable or unfavorable. (Do not round intermediete colculotions. Round your answers to the nearest whole dollor amount.)