Raleigh Department Store uses the conventional retail method for the year ended December 31, 2016. Available information follows:
a. The inventory at January 1, 2016, had a retail value of $45,000 and a cost of $27,500 based on the conventional retail method.
b. Transactions during 2016 were as follows:

Sales to employees are recorded net of discounts.
c. The retail value of the December 31, 2017, inventory was $56,100, the cost-to-retail percentage for 2017 under the LIFO retail method was 62%, and the appropriate price index was 102% of the January 1, 2017, price level.
d. The retail value of the December 31, 2018, inventory was $48,300, the cost-to-retail percentage for 2018 under the LIFO retail method was 61%, and the appropriate price index was 105% of the January 1, 2017, price level.
Required:
1. Estimate ending inventory for 2016 using the conventional retail method.
2. Estimate ending inventory for 2016 assuming Raleigh Department Store used the LIFO retail method.
3. Assume Raleigh Department Store adopts the dollar-value LIFO retail method on January 1, 2017. Estimating ending inventory for 2017 and 2018.

Cost Retail $282,000 6,500 5,000 $490,000 10,000 Gross purchases Purchase returns Purchase discounts Gross sales Sales returns Employee discounts Freight-in Net markups Net markdowns 492,000 5,000 3,000 26,500 25,000 10,000