On July $31,2025,$ Tamarisk Company engaged Minsk Tooling Company to construct a special$-$purpose piece of factory machinery. Construction began immediately and was completed on November $1,2025.$ To help finance construction, on July $31$ Tamarisk issued a $$298,800,3-$year, $12\%$ note payable at Netherlands National Bank, on which interest is payable each July $31.$$$201,800$ of the proceeds of the note was paid to Minsk on July $31.$ The remainder of the proceeds was temporarily invested in short$-$term marketable securities $($trading securities$)$ at $10\%$ until November $1$ On November $1,$ Tamarisk made a final $$97,000$ payment to Minsk Other than the note to Netherlands, Tamarisk's only outstanding liability at December $31,2025,$ is a $$31,400,8\%,6-$year note payable, dated January $1,2022,$ on which interest is payable each December $31.$

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Calculate weighted$-$average accumulated expenditures, avoidable interest, and total interest cost to be capitalized during $2025.$

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Prepare the journal entries needed on the books of Tamarisk Company at each of the following dates. $($Record journal entries in the order presented in the problem. Credit account titles are automatically indented when amount is entered. Do not indent manually. If no entry is required, select $"$No Entry" for the account titles and enter $0$ for the amounts. List all debit entries before credit entries.$)$

$1$ July $31,2025.$

$2$ November $1,2025.$

$3.$ December $31,2025.$