Flint, Inc. manufactures afghans. The budgeted units to be produced and sold are as follows: It takes 18 yards of yarn to produce an afghan. The company's policy is to maintain yarn at the end of each month equal to 5% of next month's production needs and to maintain a finished goods inventory at the end of each month equal to 20% of next month's anticipated production needs. The cost of yarn is $0.25 a yard. At August 1,3,105 yards of yarn were on hand. Compute the budgeted cost of direct materials purchases for August. Budgeted cost of direct materials purchases for August