Annette works as a payroll clerk for a large company. One of her jobs is to calculate the amount of taxes that need to be deducted from employees’ checks. A worker has gross pay of $843.29. The Medicare tax rate is 1.45% and the Social Security tax rate is 6.2%. Which of the following represents the amount of money Annette should deduct from the worker’s check for Medicare?

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step-by-step explanation:

the answer is:

the correct option:

b.

to solve the problem, we need to remember how to operate to simplify exponential expressions using the logarithms.

we are given the equation:

then, using placing logarith with base 7 on both sides of the equation, we have:

so, rounding the obtained result to two decimal places (nearest hundreth), we have:

hence, we have that the correct option:

b.

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