10-30 in the current year, roger pays a $3,000 premium for high-deductible medical insurance for him and his family. in addition, he contributed $2,600 to a health savings account.

place $0 where applicable.

a. how much may roger deduct if he is self employed? is the deduction for agi or from agi:

premium for high deductable medical insurance:

contribution to hsa:

total:

deduction for agi:

deduction from agi:

b. how much may roger deduct if he is an employee? is the deduction for agi or from agi?

premium for high deductible medical insurance:

contribution to hsa:

total:

deduction for agi:

deduction from agi:

Suppose life expectancy in years (l) is a function of two inputs, health expenditures (h) and nutrition expenditures (n) in hundreds of dollars per year. the production function is upper l equals ch superscript 0.40 baseline upper n superscript 0.60l=ch0.40n0.60. beginning with c = 1, a health input of $400400 per year (hequals=44) and a nutrition input of $400400 per year (nequals=44), show that the marginal product of health expenditures and the marginal product of nutrition expenditures are both decreasing. the marginal product of health expenditures when h goes from 44 to 55 is nothing, and the marginal product of health when h goes from 66 to 77 is nothing. (round your answers to three decimal places.)