A production department in a process manufacturing system completed its work on 72,000 units of product and transferred them to the next department during a recent period. Of these units, 28,800 were in process at the beginning of the period. The other 43,200 units were started and completed during the period. At period-end, 17,100 units were in process.
Prepare the department’s equivalent units of production with respect to direct materials under each of three separate assumptions using the Weighted -average method for process costing.