Ramos Company provides the following budgeted production for the next four months.

$\backslash$table$[[,$April,May,June,July$],[$Units to produce,$500,630,600,600]]$

Each finished unit requires $6$ pounds of direct materials. The company wants to end each month with direct materials inventory equal to $25\%$ of next month's production needs. Beginning direct materials inventory for April was $750$ pounds. Direct materials cost $$3$ per pound. Prepare a direct materials budget for April, May, and June.

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