beginning inventory, purchases, and sales data for prepaid cell phones for may are as follows: inventory purchases sales may 1 3,300 units at $28 may 10 1,650 units at $30 may 12 2,310 units may 20 1,485 units at $32 may 14 1,980 units may 31 990 units a. assuming that the perpetual inventory system is used, costing by the lifo method, determine the cost of merchandise sold for each sale and the inventory balance after each sale, presenting the data in the form illustrated in exhibit 4. under lifo, if units are in inventory at two different costs, enter the units with the higher unit cost first in the cost of merchandise sold unit cost column and lower unit cost first in the inventory unit cost column. schedule of cost of merchandise sold lifo method prepaid cell phones date quantity purchased purchases unit cost purchases total cost quantity sold cost of merchandise sold unit cost cost of merchandise sold total cost inventory quantity inventory unit cost inventory total cost may 1 $ $ may 10 $ $ may 12 $ $ may 14 may 20 may 31 may 31 balances $ $ b. based upon the preceding data, would you expect the inventory to be higher or lower using the first-in, first-out method?