Consider an economy with a flat rate tax system. Each dollar of income over $5000 is taxed at 20%. (Income below $5000 is tax free.) In general, T2(Y-5000) = -1000+ .2Y, where T is taxes and Y is income. Suppose that the population mean income is $20,000 and that the population standard deviation of incomes is $8000. All families have at least $5000 of income. a. find the mean of T b. Find the standard deviation of T. c. if the population contains 20 million families, what is the government's total tax revenue.

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Answer:

a) [tex] E(T) = 0.2 E(Y) -1000= 0.2*20000 -1000=3000[/tex]

b) [tex] Sd(T) = \sqrt{0.2^2 Var(Y)}=\sqrt{0.2^2 8000^2}= 1600[/tex]

c) Assuming 20 million of families and each one with a mean of income of 20000 for each family approximately then total income would be:

[tex] E(T) = 20000000*20000= 40000 millions[/tex]

And if we replace into the formula of T we have:

[tex] T = 0.2*400000x10^6 -1000= 790000 millions[/tex]

Approximately.  

Step-by-step explanation:

For this case we knwo that Y represenet the random variable "Income" and we have the following properties:

[tex] E(Y) = 20000, Sd(Y) = 8000[/tex]

We define a new random variable T "who represent the taxes"

[tex] T = 0.2(Y-5000) = 0.2Y -1000[/tex]

Part a

For this case we need to apply properties of expected value and we have this:

[tex] E(T) = E(0.2 Y -1000)[/tex]

We can distribute the expected value like this:

[tex] E(T) = E(0.2 Y) -E(1000)[/tex]

We can take the 0.2 as a factor since is a constant and the expected value of a constant is the same constant.

[tex] E(T) = 0.2 E(Y) -1000= 0.2*20000 -1000=3000[/tex]

Part b

For this case we need to first find the variance of T we need to remember that if a is a constant and X a random variable [tex] Var(aX) = a^2 Var(X)[/tex]

[tex] Var(T) = Var (0.2Y -1000)[/tex]

[tex] Var(T)= Var(0.2Y) -Var(1000) + 2 Cov(0.2Y, -1000)[/tex]

The covariance between a random variable and a constant is 0 and a constant not have variance so then we have this:

[tex] Var(T) =0.2^2 Var(Y)[/tex]

And the deviation would be:

[tex] Sd(T) = \sqrt{0.2^2 Var(Y)}=\sqrt{0.2^2 8000^2}= 1600[/tex]

Part c

Assuming 20 million of families and each one with a mean of income of 20000 for each family approximately then total income would be:

[tex] E(T) = 20000000*20000= 40000 millions[/tex]

And if we replace into the formula of T we have:

[tex] T = 0.2*400000x10^6 -1000= 790000 millions[/tex]

Approximately.