Karmee Company has been accumulating operating data in order to prepare an annual profit plan. Details regarding Karmee's sales for the first six months of the coming year are as follows. Karmee's cost of goods sold average 40 percent of the sales value. Karmee's objective is to maintain a target inventory equal to 30 percent of the next month's sales. Purchases of merchandise for resale are paid for in the month following the sale. The variable operating expenses (other than cost of goods sold) for Karmee are 10 percent of sales and are paid for in the month following the sale. The annual fixed operating expenses are presented below. All of these are incurred uniformly throughout the year and paid monthly except for insurance and property taxes. Insurance is paid quarterly in January, April, July, and October. Property taxes are paid twice a year in April and October. Property taxes are paid twice a year in April and October. The purchases of merchandise that Karmee Company will need to mpke during February will be: $254,000 $260,000 $266,000 $275,000