Tiger Drug Store carries a variety of health and beauty aids, including 500-count bottles of vitamins. The sales budget for vitamins for the first six months of the year is presented below.

	Unit Sales	Dollar Sales
January	140	$1,260
February	130	1,170
March	150	1,350
April	160	1,440
May	180	1,620
June	170	1,530

The owner of Tiger Drug believes that ending inventories should be sufficient to cover 10 percent of the next months projected sales. On January 1, 21 bottles of vitamins were in inventory.

Required:

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1. Prepare a merchandise purchases budget in bottles of vitamins for as many months as you can.

Tiger Drug Store Merchandise Purchases Budget

	January	February	March	April	May
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Less: BI	fill in the blank	fill in the blank	fill in the blank	fill in the blank	fill in the blank
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2. If vitamins are priced at cost plus 80 percent, what is the dollar cost of purchases for each month of your purchases budget?

January	$fill in the blank
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May	fill in the blank