THE ANSWER IS NOT $174,286!!!!!$Vista Company manufactures electronic equipment. In $2021,$ it purchased from an outside supplier the special switches used in each of its products. The supplier charged Vista $$2\mathrm{.}40$ per switch. As an alternative, Vista's CEO considered purchasing either machine A or machine $B$ so the company could manufacture its own switches. The CEO decided at the beginning of $2022$ to purchase machine $A,$ based on the following data:

$\backslash$table$[[$Annual fixed cost $($depreciation$),$Machine A$,$Machine B$],[$Variable cost per switch,$$155,000,$$$208,000$