Sit$-$Down Ltd manufactures chairs. Each chair requires $425$ grams of plastic costing $$0\mathrm{.}34$

per $10$ grams. Sit$-$Down uses the plastic to cover the chairs. Sit$-$Down has budgeted

production of chairs for the next four months as follows:

Units

March

$3,500$

April

$4,400$

May

$4,900$

June

$6,300$

Inventory policy requires that sufficent plastic be in ending monthly inventory to satisfy

$20$ percent of the following month's production needs. The inventory of plastic at the

beginning of March equals exactly the amount needed to satisfy the inventory policy.

The ending inventory $($grams$)$ for March is

$374,000$

$297,500$

$535,500$

$416,500$