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On January 1, 2020, Whispering Wholesalers Inc. adopted the dollar-value LIFO inventory method for income tax and external financial reporting purposes. However, Whispering continued to use the FIFO inventory method for internal accounting and management purposes. In applying the LIFO method, Whispering uses internal conversion price indexes and the multiple pools approach under which substantially identical inventory items are grouped into LIFO inventory pools. The following data were available for inventory pool no. 1, which comprises products A and B, for the 2 years following the adoption of LIFO.

		FIFO Basis per Records
		Units		Unit Cost		Total Cost
Inventory, 1/1/20
Product A		13,000		$30		$390,000
Product B		11,700		25		292,500
						$682,500
Inventory, 12/31/20
Product A		21,450		36		$772,200
Product B		11,700		26		304,200
						$1,076,400
Inventory, 12/31/21
Product A		16,900		40		$676,000
Product B		13,000		32		416,000
						$1,092,000

Compute the internal conversion price indexes for 2020 and 2021. (Round price index to 2 decimal places, e.g. 162.)

		2020		2021
Conversion price index

Compute the inventory amounts at December 31, 2020 and 2021, using the dollar-value LIFO inventory method. (Round answers to 0 decimal places, e.g. 5,620.)

		2020		2021
Inventory		$		$