The Howell Company has prepared a sales budget of 40 comma 000 finished units for a 3-month period. The company has an inventory of 11 comma 000 units of finished goods on hand at December 31 and has a target finished goods inventory of 13 comma 000 units at the end of the succeeding quarter. It takes 3 gallons of direct materials to make one unit of finished product. The company has inventory of 61 comma 000 gallons of direct materials at December 31 and has a target ending inventory of 58 comma 000 gallons at the end of the succeeding quarter. How many gallons of direct materials should Howell Company purchase during the 3 months ending March 31?

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Determining effects of stock splits oracle corp has had the following stock splits since its inception. effective date split amount october 12, 2000 2 for 1 january 18, 2000 2 for 1 february 26, 1999 3 for 2 august 15, 1997 3 for 2 april 16, 1996 3 for 2 february 22, 1995 3 for 2 november 8, 1993 2 for 1 june 16,1989 2 for 1 december 21, 1987 2 for 1 march 9, 1987 2 for 1 a. if the par value of oracle shares was originally $2, what would oracle corp. report as par value per share on its 2015 balance sheet? compute the revised par value after each stock split. round answers to three decimal places.