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Safe Travel produces car seats for children from newborn to $2$ years old. The company is worried because one of its competitors has recently come under public scrutiny because of product failure. Historically, Safe Travel's only problem with its car seats was stitching in the straps. The problem can usually be detected and repaired during an internal inspection. The cost of the inspection is $\backslash (\backslash$$ $6\backslash )$ per car seat, and the repair cost is $\backslash (\backslash$$ $1\mathrm{.}25\backslash )$ per car seat. All $175,000$ car seats were inspected last year and $\backslash (5\backslash \%\backslash )$ were found to have problems with the stitching in the straps during the internal inspection. Another $\backslash (1\backslash \%\backslash )$ of the $175,000$ car seats had problems with the stitching, but the internal inspection did not discover them. Defective units that were sold and shipped to customers needed to be shipped back to Safe Travel and repaired. Shipping costs are $\backslash (\backslash$$ $9\backslash )$ per car seat, and repair costs are $\backslash (\backslash$$ $1\mathrm{.}25\backslash )$ per car seat. However, the out$-$of$-$pocket costs $($shipping and repair$)$ are not the only costs of defects not discovered in the internal inspection. Negative publicity will result in a loss of contribution margin of $\backslash (\backslash$$ $168\backslash )$ for each external failure. Read the requirements. Requirement $1.$ Calculate appraisal cost. Select the components you will use and enter the amounts in the formula.

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