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Your company budgeted $$600,000$ per year to pay for special$-$order parts over the next $5$ years. If the company expects the cost of the parts to increase uniformly according to an arithmetic gradient of $$40,000$ per year, what is the cost estimated to be in year $1$ at an interest rate of $10\%$ per year compounded annually?

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