Current Attempt in Progress

Coronado manufactures competition stunt kites. In November, Richard Miller prepared the following production budget for the first quarter of the coming year. Desired ending inventory is based on the following month's budgeted sales.

$\backslash$table$[[,$January,February,March,Quarter$],[$Budgeted sales,$45,000,31,000,34,000,110,000],[$Desired ending inventory,$6,200,6,800,2,400,2,400],[$Kites needed,$51,200,37,800,36,400,112,400],[$Less beginning inventory,$9,000,6,200,6,800,9,000],[$Budgeted production,$42,200,31,600,29,600,103,400]]$

Following lower$-$than$-$expected sales in December, Jerry conducted an inventory count on January $2$ and discovered that the company had $4,000$ completed kites on hand. He decided that given the slow sales in December, the company should decrease its desired ending inventory level from $20$ to $15\%$ of the next month's sales volume.

$($a$)$ Prepare a new production budget for the first quarter.

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