Jack Jones, the materials manager at Precision Enterprises, is beginning to look for ways to reduce inventories. A recent

accounting statement shows that the inventory investment for raw materials is $$3,861,600,$ for work$-$in$-$process is

$$6,869,000,$ and for finished goods is $$2,749,000.$ This year's cost of goods sold will be about $$16,276,000.$ Assume that

there are $52$ business weeks per year.

a$.$ Express total inventory as weeks of supply.

The weeks of supply is

weeks. $($Enter your response rounded to one decimal place.$)$