$($Liquidity Analysis$)$ The King Carpet Company has $$3,180,000$ in cash and a total of $$11,940,000$ in current assets. The firm's current liabilities equal

$$5,820,000$ such that the firm's current ratio equals $2\mathrm{.}1.$ The company's managers want to reduce the firm's cash holdings down to $$1,090,000$ by

paying $$578,000$ in cash to expand the firm's truck fleet and using $$1,512,000$ 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 $.($Round to one decimal place.$)$