At December 31, 2020, Ivanhoe Corporation had a deferred tax liability of $26,800. At December 31, 2021, the deferred tax liability is $42,800. The corporation’s 2021 current tax expense is $49,300. What amount should Ivanhoe report as total 2021 income tax expense?

In terms of the "great wheel of science", statistics are central to the research process (a) only between the hypothesis phase and the observation phase (b) only between the observation phase and the empirical generalization phase (c) only between the theory phase and the hypothesis phase (d) only between the empirical generalization phase and the theory phase