Pharoah requires an estimate of the cost of goods lost by fire on March $9.$ Merchandise on hand on January $1$ was $$77,000.$ Purchases since January $1$ were $$150,000$; freight$-$in$,$ $$7,500$; purchase returns and allowances, $$4,900.$ Sales are made at $25\%$ above cost and totaled $$205,000$ to March $9.$ Goods costing $$22,200$ were left undamaged by the fire; remaining goods were destroyed.

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Compute the cost of goods destroyed.

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Compute the cost of goods destroyed, assuming that the gross profit is $25\%$ of sales.

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