The table below shows last year's gross income, standard deduction, and number of exemptions for four different workers.
Gross
Income
Standard
Deduction
Number of Exemptions at
$3650 Each
Kevin
$97,223
$8350
3
Louis
$89,756
$8350
1
Madelyn $90,237
$5700
2
Selma
$87,875
$5700
1
Assuming that each worker used the standard deduction and that none of the
workers had any additional adjustments, which worker had the lowest taxable
income last year?

linearly: 8560 bacteria

exponentially: approximately 75233 bacteria

step-by-step explanation:

assuming it is not exponential (we would have some really complicated logarithms), let's say it is linear. then, after 5 hours, it increased by 1200 bacteria, so every hour it increases by 240 bacteria. this means that after 19 hours, we get 19 * 240 + 4000 bacteria or 3800 + 760 + 4000 = 7800 + 760 = 8560 bacteria.

because it says round your answer, i will do this exponentially (with a calculator, of course). first, we need to find how much it multiplies by every hour, by taking the 5th root of 52/40 or 13/10. this is approximately 0.167. we still need to add 1 to this, because we are multiplying by that number, not adding that amount of the number. now, we just calculate 4000 * (1.167)^19. use a calculator to get approximately 75232.6, or 75233.

the balance is found at the link

step-by-step explanation:

c. (3,2,6) is the answer.