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Delsing plumbing company has beginning inventory of 14,000 units, will sell 50,000 units for the month,and desires to reduce ending inventory to 40% of beginning inventory.How many units should Delsing produce?
Beginning inventory 14,000
Will sale 50,000 unit in a month
1. Beginning inventory+ projected sales
14,000+50,000
=64,000
2. Subtract beginning inventory
64,000-14,000=50,000
3.multiple beginning and percentage
14,000x40%=5600 to produce
Always think about the logic of your answers. You're estimating sales of 50,000 units with only 14,000 in beginning inventory. Do you think producing only 5600 is going to be sufficient? You can't always know if your exact number is correct, but if you think about what you're doing, you can at least know when something is big-time off like this. You have to stop and think about whether your answer makes any sense.