$($Liquidity Analysis$)$ The King Carpet Company has $$3,010,000$ in cash and a total of $$11,770,000$ in current assets. The firm's current liabilities equal $$5,550,000$ such that the firm's current ratio equals $2\mathrm{.}1.$

The company's managers want to reduce the firm's cash holdings down to $$1,040,000$ by paying $$526,000$ in cash to expand the firm's truck fleet and using $$1,444,000$ in cash to retire a short$-$term note. If they carry this plan through, what will happen to the firm's current ratio?

The new current ratio is

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