Walman Company is budgeting sales of 40,000 units of Product Y for March 2000. To make one unit of finished product, three pounds of raw material A are required. Actual beginning and desired ending inventories of raw material A and Product Y are as follows:
| Raw material A |     1 1          pounds | 120,000 pounds | 
| Product Y | 21 ,000 units | 24,000 units | 
There is no work-in-process inventory for product Y at the beginning and end of March. For the month of March, how many pound of raw material A is Walman planning to purchase?