Managerial Accounting Chapter 11 E11-18A Hallmark Rings produces class rings. Its best-selling model has a direct materials standard of 10 10 grams of a special alloy per ring. This special alloy has a standard cost of $ 65.80 per gram. In the past month, the company purchased 10,700 grams of this alloy at a total cost of $697,640. A total of 10,300 grams were used last month to produce 1,000 rings Requirements 1. What is the actual cost per gram of the special alloy that Hallmark Rings paid last month? 2. What is the direct material price variance? 3. What is the direct material quantity variance? 4. How might the direct material price variance for the company last month be causing the direct material quantity variance?