Short Company produces two products: X Brand and Y Brand. Budgeted sales for four months are as follows:

	X Brand	Y Brand
May	10,000	40,000
June	20,000	70,000
July	15,000	80,000
August	30,000	90,000

Shorts ending inventory policy is that X Brand should have 10% of its next months sales in ending inventory and Y Brand should have 20% of next months sales in its ending inventory. On May 1, Shorties inventory had 1,000 units of X Brand and 9,000 units of Y Brand. Y Brand requires four units of component A. (X Brand does not use component A.) On May 1, 2,100 units of component A were in inventory. Short wants to have 30% of the following months production needs in inventory for component A.

a)How much component A will be budgeted in May? Please show your work.