The budget components for Marigold Company for the quarter ended June $30$ appear below. Marigold sells high performance coolers for $$120$ each. Budgeted sales and production for the next three months are:

$\backslash$table$[[,$Sales,Production$],[$April$,21,700$ units,$26,300$ units$],[$May$,50,000$ units,$45,300$ units$],[$June$,31,300$ units,$28,500$ units$]]$

Marigold desires to have coolers on hand at the end of each month equal to $20$ percent of the following month's budgeted sales in units. On March $31,$ Marigold had $4,340$ completed units on hand. Five pounds of plastic are required for each cooler. At the end of each month, Marigold desires to have $10$ percent of the following month's production material needs on hand. At March $31,$ Marigold had $13,150$ pounds of plastic on hand. The materials used in production cost $$0\mathrm{.}55$ per pound. The production of each cooler requires $0\mathrm{.}10$ hours of direct labor.

Determine the budgeted cost of direct materials purchases for the month of April.

Budgeted cost of direct materials purchases for April $