Bismite Corporation purchases trees from Cheney lumber and processes them up to the splitoff point where two products (paper and pencil casings) are obtained. The products are then sold to an independent company that markets and distributes them to retail outlets. The following information was collected for the month of October:

Trees processed:

250 trees

Production:

paper

180,000 sheets

pencil casings

180,000

Sales:

paper

174,000 at $0.12 per page

pencil casings

178,500 at $0.15 per casing

The cost of purchasing 250 trees and processing them up to the splitoff point to yield 180,000 sheets of paper and 180,000 pencil casings is $12,500. Bismite's accounting department reported no beginning inventory. If the sales value at splitoff method is used, what is the approximate production cost for each pencil casing?

		$0.309
		$0.039
		$0.301
		$0.031