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Afirm owns three department stores. Each store has a debt-equity ratio of 16 percent and makes interest payments of $44,000 at the end of each year. The cost of the ?rm's levered equity is 18 percent. Each store estimates that annual sales will be $1.305 million; annual cost of goods sold will be $755,000; and annual general and administrative costs will be $415,000. These cash flows are expected to remain the same forever. The corporate tax rate is 21 percent. What is the value of the ?rm? (Hint: Use Flow-to-Equity Approach). Enter your answer rounded to the nearest whole number (E.g., 846000). The program will accept answers within 5 of the correct answer.