During the current month, Wacholz Company incurs the following manufacturing costs. (a) Purchased raw materials of $17,500 on account. (b) Incurred factory labor of $39,900. Of that amount, $30,800 relates to wages payable and $9,100 relates to payroll taxes payable. (c) Factory utilities of $3,500 are payable, prepaid factory property taxes of $2,770 have expired, and depreciation on the factory building is $9,900.

Emery pharmaceutical uses an unstable chemical compound that must be kept in an environment where both temperature and humidity can be controlled. emery uses 825 pounds per month of the chemical, estimates the holding cost to be 50% of the purchase price (because of spoilage), and estimates order costs to be $48 per order. the cost schedules of two suppliers are as follows: vendor 1 vendor 2 quantity price/lb quantity price/lb 1-499 $17 1-399 $17.10 500-999 $16.75 400-799 $16.85 1000+ $16.50 800-1199 $16.60 1200+ $16.25 (a) what is the economic order quantity for each supplier? (b) what quantity should be ordered and which supplier should be used? (c) the total cost for the most economic order sire is $