Given the following input and output data, prepare a simple material flow cost table. Pineapple Ltd manufactures a line of \(140 \mathrm{~cm}\) LCD televisions, producing 1000 of these televisions per week. The raw material inputs for each television are given below.

Required:
a What proportion of inputs become positive product outputs?
b What is the overall amount of negative product outputs?
c What steps could management take to improve the proportion of positive product outputs relative to inputs?

Item Plastic Product inputs per television Quantity 9.6 kg 4 kg Packaging Auxiliary materials Merchandise Operating materials 1.6 kg 1.6 kg 8 kg Price $5.6 kg $1.6 kg $ 12 kg $ 64 kg 8 c/kg Positive product outputs per television Quantity Price 7.2 kg 3.2 kg 1.2 kg 1.6 kg Item Plastic Packaging Auxiliary materials Merchandise