Weber Corporation uses the retail inventory method to estimate its inventory balances. The following information is available in June 30:

Required:
1. Compute tile inventory on June 30 using the conventional retail inventory method (lower of average cost or market). Round the cost-to-retail ratio to 3 decimal places.
2. Independent of Requirement 1, assume that the June 30 inventors€™ was $80,000 at retail and that the cost-to retail ratio is 50%. I f the price level of the inventory has risen by 5% during the period, compute the cost of the June 30 inventory under the dollar-value retail LIFO method, assuming that the company adopted the method at the beginning of the year.

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Cost $25,000 75,000 2,000 Retail Cost Retail Inventory, Janvary 1 Purchases Sales Purchases returns $7,000 3,000 205,000 Markdown cancellations2,000 1,000 60,000 Morkdowns 180,000 Additional markups 5,000 Markup cancellations