Last year Vaughn Corp. had sales of $$315,000$ and a net income of $$17,832,$ and its year$-$end assets were $$210,000.$ The firm's total$-$debt$-$to$-$total$-$assets ratio was $42\mathrm{.}5\%.$ Based on the DuPont equation, what was Vaughn's ROE?

Question $2$ options:

$14\mathrm{.}77\%$

$15\mathrm{.}51\%$

$16\mathrm{.}28\%$

$17\mathrm{.}10\%$