On June $30,2024,$ Blue, Incorporated leased a machine from Big Leasing Corporation. The lease agreement qualifies as a finance lease and calls for Blue to make semiannual lease payments of $$298,341$ over a three$-$year lease term, payable each June $30$ and December $31,$ with the first payment on June $30,2024.$ Blue$$s incremental borrowing rate is $10\%,$ the same rate Big uses to calculate lease payment amounts.

The lease agreement qualifies as a finance lease. Amortization is recorded on a straight$-$line basis at the end of each year.

Note: Use tables, Excel, or a financial calculator. $($FV of $$1,$ PV of $$1,$ FVA of $$1,$ PVA of $$1,$ FVAD of $$1$ and PVAD of $$1)$

Required:

$1.$Determine the present value of the lease payments on June $30,2024,$ that Blue uses to record the right$-$of$-$use asset and lease liability.

$2.$What would be the amounts related to the lease that Blue would report in its balance sheet at December $31,2024?($Ignore taxes.$)$

$3.$What would be the amounts related to the lease that Blue would report in its income statement for the year ended December $31,2024?($Ignore taxes.$)$