Costco Wholesale Corporation discloses the following in footnotes to its 10-K report relating to its leasing activities.

At the end of 2013, future minimum payments...under non-cancelable leases with terms of at least one year were as follows ($ millions):

2014	$ 189
2015	175
2016	167
2017	160
2018	153
Thereafter	1,753
Total minimum payments	$ 2,597

Operating leases are not reflected on-balance-sheet. In our analysis of a company, we often capitalize these operating leases, that is, add the present value of the future operating lease payments to both the reported assets and liabilities.
(a) Compute the present value of Costco's operating lease payments assuming a 6% discount rate and round the remaining lease term to the nearest whole year. (Use a financial calculator or Excel to compute. Do not round until your final answers. Round each answer to the nearest whole number.)

($ millions)	Present Value
Year 1	$
Year 2	$
Year 3	$
Year 4	$
Year 5	$
After 5	$
Total*	$

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