Kyoto, Inc. predicts the following sales in units for the coming four months:
Sales in units
April 240
May 280
June 300
July 240
Although each month's ending inventory of finished units should be 60% of the next month's sales, the March 31 finished goods inventory is only 100 units. A finished unit requires five pounds of raw material B. The March 31 raw materials inventory has 200 pounds of B. Each month's ending inventory of raw materials should be 30% of the following month's production needs.
what should be the budgeted purchases of pounds of raw material B during May ?