Selected current year$-$end financial statements of Cabot Corporation follow. $($All sales were on credit; selected balance sheet amounts at December $31$ of the prior year were inventory, $$48,900$; total assets, $$229,400$; common stock, $$83,000$; and retained earnings, $$28,578.$

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