Luffman Inc. owns 30% of Bruce Inc. and appropriately applies the equity method. During the current year, Bruce bought inventory costing $52,000 and then sold it to Luffman for $80,000. At year-end, all of the merchandise had been sold by Luffman to other customers. What amount of gross profit on intra-entity sales must be deferred by Luffman?

Multiple Choice

$8,400.

$52,000.

$0.

$28,000.