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Exercise 8-3 (Algo) Direct Materials Budget [LO8-4] Four grams of musk oil are required for each bottle of Mink Caress, a very popular perfume made by a small company in western Siberia. The cost of the musk oil is $2.20 per gram. Budgeted production of Mink Caress is given below by quarters for Year 2 and for the first quarter of Year 3: The inventory of musk oil at the end of a quarter must be equal to 20% of the following quarter's production needs. Some 80,000 grams of musk oll will be on hand to start the first quarter of Year 2. Required: Prepare a direct materials budget for musk oll, by quarter and in total, for Year 2