Montrose Instrumentation produces measurement equipment. One component, used in a variety of the company's products, is critical and the supply chain often breaks. For that reason, Montrose has a policy to hold in inventory enough of the component to produce three month's worth of sales $($one component is used in each unit of product in which it is used$).$ On February $1,$ the company has $31,000$ components in stock. Sales of the units in which the component is used in each of the next six months are estimated to be as follows:

$\backslash$table$[[$February$,32,500],[$March$,26,500],[$April$,28,000],[$May$,33,550],[$June$,30,150],[$July$,42,110]]$

Parts are purchased at a wholesale price of $$46.$ The vendor has a financing arrangement by which Montrose pays $40$ percent of the purchase price in the month when the components are delivered and $60$ percent in the following month. Montrose purchased $38,000$ parts in January.

Required:

a$.$ Estimate purchases of the component $($in units$)$ for February and March.

b$.$ Estimate the cash disbursements for the component in February and March.

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Estimate purchases of the component $($in units$)$ for February and March.

$\backslash$table$[[$Merchandise to be purchased in units,February,March$]]$