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You are told the column totals in a trial balance are not equal. After careful analysis, you discover only one error. Specifically, a correctly journalized credit purchase of an automobile for $$13,600$ is posted from the journal to the ledger with an $$13,600$ debit to Automobiles and another $$13,600$ debit to Accounts Payable. The Automobiles account has a debit balance of $$32,232$ on the trial balance. Answer each of the following questions and compute the dollar amount of any misstatement.

e$.$ If the debit column total of the trial balance is $$285,600$ before correcting the error, what is the total of the credit column before correction?