Suppose Colorado Sportswear suffered a hurricane loss and needs to estimate the cost of the goods destroyed. Beginning inventory was \($106,000\), net purchases totaled \($636,000\), and sales came to \($1,060,000\). Colorado's normal gross profit percentage is 53%. Use the gross profit method to estimate the cost of the inventory lost in the hurricane.

a. $498,200

b. $243,800

c. $742,000

d. $561,800