Steve Forbes ran for US president in 1996 and 2000 on a platform proposing a 17% flat tax, that is, an income tax that would simply be 17% of each tax payer's taxable
income. Suppose that Alice was single in the year 2016 with a taxable income of $40000.
a) What was Alice's tax? Use Tax table on page 292.
b) If the 17% flat tax proposed by Mr. Forbes had been in effect in 2016, what
would Alice's tax have been?

The number of chocolate chips in an 18-ounce bag of chocolate chip cookies is approximately normally distributed with a mean of 1252 chips and standard deviation 129 chips. (a) what is the probability that a randomly selected bag contains between 1100 and 1500 chocolate chips, inclusive? (b) what is the probability that a randomly selected bag contains fewer than 1125 chocolate chips? (c) what proportion of bags contains more than 1225 chocolate chips? (d) what is the percentile rank of a bag that contains 1425 chocolate chips?

Which of the following tables represents exponential functions?

7. the area of the playing surface at the olympic stadium in beijing isof a hectare. what area will it occupy on a plan drawn to a scaleof 1: 500?