Xavi develops a cell phone battery that can be charged by a solar panel and can run efficiently for up to three hours. his friends point out that it would be difficult to get cell phone manufacturers to adopt this new technology and that it could take a long time for people to start relying on it. however, xavi is convinced that he can make his idea popular and successful. he plans to start a new company called enermob inc. that would promote and sell the cell phone battery to the public. in this scenario, xavi is said to be demonstrating

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Turrubiates corporation makes a product that uses a material with the following standards standard quantity 8.0 liters per unit standard price $2.50 per liter standard cost $20.00 per unit the company budgeted for production of 3,800 units in april, but actual production was 3,900 units. the company used 32,000 liters of direct material to produce this output. the company purchased 20,100 liters of the direct material at $2.6 per liter. the direct materials purchases variance is computed when the materials are purchased. the materials quantity variance for april is:

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