You are a high school senior with a part-time job at a retail store. Your employer pays you $9.75 per hour. Last week, you worked a total of 30 hours. The following payroll deductions were taken from your gross pay:

Federal income tax (withholding) at 10%
Social Security tax at 6.2%
Medicare tax at 1.45%
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The amount for TOTAL DEDUCTIONS for this pay period was $
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The federal reserve controls certain interest rates in the united states. investors often try to speculate as to whether the federal reserve will raise or lower rates and by how much. suppose a company conducts extensive interviews with financial analysts, and as a result, predicts that "thefed" will increase rates by an average of 0.25 percentage points every six months for the forseeable future. which type of equation could be used to model the predicted interest rates over the next several years, assuming no other significant changes? a) a linear equation b) a quadratic equation c) a polynomial equation d) an exponential equation