The following information pertains to Beige, Inc., for the current year:

Sales	$1,000,000
Internal failure costs	150,000
External failure costs	200,000
Appraisal costs	50,000
Prevention costs	30,000
Cost of goods sold	600,000

Which of the following expresses the quality costs as a percentage of sales? (Rounded to two decimal places.)

Group of answer choices

4.44%

43.00%

57.22%

19.44%