Assume Andersons General Store bought, on credit, a truckload of merchandise from American Wholesaling costing $25,000. If Andersons paid National Trucking $850 cash for transportation, immediately returned goods to American Wholesaling costing $1,100, and then paid American Wholesaling within the 1/30, n/60 purchase discount period. How much did this inventory cost Andersons? Assume Andersons uses a perpetual inventory system.

what is the inventory cost?