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Cardinal Company is considering a five$-$year project requiring a $$2,945,000$ investment in equipment with a useful life of five years and no salvage value. The company's discount rate is $18\%.$ The project would provide net operating income in each of five years as follows:

$\backslash$table$[[$Sales$,$$$2,873,000,],[$Variable expenses,$1,019,000,],[$Contribution margin,$1,854,000,],[$Fixed expenses:,,$],[,$ Advertising, salaries, and other,,$],[,$ fixed out$-$of$-$pocket costs,$$554,000,],[,$ Depreciation,$589,000,1,343,000$