Mitchell Products manufactures faux boulders to be used in various landscaping applications. A special resin is used to make the boulders. The standard quantity of resin used for each boulder is 2 pounds. Mitchell Products uses a standard cost of $1.80 per pound for the resin. The company produced 11,000 boulders in June. In that month, 21,750 pounds of resin were purchased at a total cost of $43,500. A total of 21,500 pounds were used in producing the boulders in June.
Requirements
1. Calculate the direct material price variance.
2. Calculate the direct material quantity variance.