Question

Sandy's Sauces, which produces stir-fry sauces, is developing direct material standards. Each bottle of sauce requires 0.79 kilograms of base. The normal allowance for waste is 0.40 kilograms per bottle, while the normal allowance for rejects is 0.20 kilograms per bottle.
What is the standard quantity of base per bottle?

Answer 1

Answer:

Standard quantity of base per bottle is 1.39 kg

Explanation:

Standard Quantity includes normal wastage and normal allowances. Calculation of Standard Quantity is as follows:

kilograms of base required    = 0.79

normal allowance for waste   = 0.40

normal allowance for rejects = 0.20

Total                                        =  1.39