At the end of the year, the balance on a firm's sales ledger control account was $12900. The total of the customers' accounts in sales ledger was $11900. The following errors were then discovered. 1 A customer's account had been undercast by $700. 2 A contra with a supplier in the purchases ledger of $200 had only been entered in the sales ledger control account. 3 The discount allowed column in the cash book totalled $500. This had not been posted to the nominal ledger. What was the correct balance on the sales ledger control account?
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D: $12400
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