Blossom Inc. bought new computers on January $1$ for $$38000$ to improve the quality of its animation products. The computers have a useful life of $8$ years but Blossom Inc. thinks that continuing technological developments will likely mean it will replace the computers after $4$ years, at which time the computers wifl be worth $$3400.$ If Blossom uses straight$-$line depreciation, the depreciation expense for the first year will be

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