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Question: Cardenas Pharmaceutical produces antibiotics.


Cardenas Pharmaceutical produces antibiotics. During April, Cardenas’s tableting department had the following data:

Units in BWIP……………………………………… —
Units completed …………………………..105,000
Units in EWIP (30% complete) ………15,750

Required:
Calculate April’s output for the tableting department in equivalent units of production.



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