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Work these exercise. (See Examples 2, 3, 10, and 11.)
Mdeicare An employee must pay Medicare tax at a base rate plus an additional Medicare tax if wages exceed a certain threshold. For a single person in 2016, the employee’s Medicare tax in dollars was determined by the
where x is the employee’s Medicare wages in thousands of dollars. (Data from: Internal Revenue Service.)
Find the function values
Graph this function for wages up to $400,000 (that is,
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