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Income Inequality The share of aggregate income held by middle-income households in 1970 was
a. Find the mathematical models describing the aggregate income held by each group from 1970 through 2014. (Let t denote the time, in years, with
b. Find the time when the aggregate income held by upper-income households first exceeded that held by middle-income households.
Source: Pew Research Center.
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