Strand company is planning to sell 400 buckets and produce 380 buckets during march. each bucket requires 500 grams of plastic and one-half hour of direct labor. plastic costs $10 per 500 grams and employees of the company are paid $15.00 per hour. manufacturing overhead is applied at a rate of 110% of direct labor costs. strand has 300 kilos of plastic in beginning inventory and wants to have 200 kilos in ending inventory. how much is the total amount of budgeted direct labor for march?

Given the data in the problem, we can calculate the cost of production for each bucket:

one bucket requires:

500 grams of plastic and one-half hour of direct labor.

The plastic costs $10.00 per 500 grams and the employees are paid $15.00 per hour.

Therefore, one bucket costs (material and labor):

$10.00 + $15.00 * (1/2 hour) = $17.50 per bucket plus (1.10 * $7.50) = $25.75

for 380 buckets:

$25.75 * 380 = $9785

This value only represents the cost of production of 380 buckets for the month of March.