DEVELOP A FUNCTION NAMED RADAR WHICH TAKES SOMEONE'S SPEED IN MPH AND RETUNRS ONE OF THE FOLLOWING SYMBOLS; "AT LIMIT" "UNDER LIMIT", OR "OVER LIMIT" based on the person's speed.\n\nThanks for any help on this\n\nI have this: am I on right track here?\n\n(define radar 55 )\n(cond\n[ (< radar 55 ) "under radar" ]\n[ (and ( = radar 55 ) "at limit" ]\n[ (and (> radar 55 ) "over limit" ] )\n\nThe second one I don't know where to start here:\n\nDevelop a function tax which consumes the gross pay and produces the amount of tax owed. For a gross pay of $240 or less, the tax is 0%, for over $240 and $480 or less, the tax is 15% and for any pay over $480 the tax rate is 28%\n\nThanks for any time
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I'm not sure of which language u are using but I'll give you an alogorithm(that is logic in simple lang) hopefully u can convert it to ur need.\n\n1: U r on the right track. Taking 55 as speed limit\n\nFunction Radar(takes userinput)\n{\n   if(userinput< 55)\n     print "under limit"\n   else if(userinput=55)\n     print "at limit"\n   else if(userinput>55)\n     print "over limit"\n}\n\ndont user AND ... it is wrong in the logic.\n\n\n2:\n\nFunction Tax(grosspay=User's Input)\n{\n   if(grosspay<=240)\n     tax=0\n   else if(grosspay>240 and grosspay<=480)\n     tax=grosspay * 0.15\n   else if(grosspay>480)\n     tax=grosspay * 0.28\n\n   print tax\n\n}\n\nHopefully u'll be able to convert it to ur required language\n}
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You work and earn $50k, and owe, according to your estimate, $15k in taxes. \n\nIf I asked you today if you would do a job for me that would take you several months to complete, for $50k and you could then get paid in one of two ways:\n1)$35k right when you are done, or \n2)$30k four years from now, plus 80% of what interest is earned between now and then (20% are the taxes on that portion)\n\nWhich would you choose?\n\nYou would be foolish to choose option 2. Obviously the circumstances that got you there are not the same, but indeed you would be choosing the equivalent. Think long and hard before you take a 10% penalty without flinching.
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File your taxes.  I run a home based business (graphic design) and learned the hard way.  I made $396 in my first year (started in December of that year), and didn't see the need it was small.\n\nI got a HUGE fine from the IRS.  Luckily I got it cleared because I had an atty do the work, but I learned - no matter how small, report it.  It isn't worth the headache.
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FOR YOUR INFORMATION THAT'S ILLEGAL!!!! I HAVE A FRIEND THAT DID THAT JUST ONCE AND GOT CAUGHT AND FINED $60,000 (US). HE'S HAVING FUN PAYING THAT!
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Not unless you have radar absorbing paint which the government would love to have too.  I was picked up on a 10 speed bike trailing all kinds of foil to mask me but I was still picked up and clocked by police radar gun.  If you find a way post it.  I want to know that trick.  You can overload them with powerful transmitters, the radar reads false speed like 200mph which is not reliable for court,especially when I drive a 1972 VW bug, but they are illegal.  Plans on Internet and part from Radio Shack
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You failed to negotiate this at the outset but if you don't ask then you STILL won't get it.  You have nothing to lose by asking for "some" assistance.  Maybe asking for a "partial" allowance may make it easier for the bosses to say yes!  Check with your tax preparer on what exactly you can claim for mileage, I know that you can't claim miles to and from work (and MOST travel allowances don't pay that either), but I don't know about miles during work.
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www.salary.com is a great site to find information.  We had to do a similar project for my Advanced Algebra II class, where we made a budget and everything.  That site is awesome and it really helps.  It even tells you how much after taxes and everything.
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for 1), it is acceptable to name your domain as being 85 <= x <= 102, where x is a set of natural numbers (numbers greater than 0). If you want to be more specific, u can say the domain consists of all 4 speeds.\n\nYour range is indicated by the lowest fine paid up to the highest fine paid. In this case, sub in the lowest and highest speeds into the equation. The range is bounded by these values.\n\n2) Sub it into the equation as F, and solve for x. Use quadratic formula or factoring :)
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I can't believe only one person came up with:\n\n"How did you sign a contract agreeing to anything when you were under the age of 18?"\n\nIt's not valid.\n\nAnd, I don't think there's any good chance of anybody recognising you.\n\nBut.\n\nThe answers with "call the store manager, and explain" are not too far off the mark. What you want to say is:\n\n"I know I was stupid at the time and it's not a mistake I've made since then."\n\nI shoplifted a bit of junk when I was 13, on a lark; got caught, got "banned" from that mall, and -- well, that was my first go at it -- and now? I'd forgotten all about it until your question.\n\nWhat you signed is not a valid contract. And, from the sounds of it, not enforceable under any common law. Just go back.\n\nTop job on never stealing again...!
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I have to diasagree with the 1st two posters (and the 1st one is just snotty).\nBut anyhow...\nAlthough both parties may be breaking the law, the employer is far more guilty.  First of all, when a person is hired, they usually have to accept whatever payment is given to them--the method of payment is not their decision.   This illegal business practice was going on before your daughter was hired, and it will continue to go on after she no longer lives there.\nAlso, the employer is guilty on how many accounts? As many as he has employees.  So I would bet that if your daughter reported this creep to the proper authorities, they, most likely, will not take any action against your daughter.  And, besides that, she is a minor--not much they can do legally anyway.\n AND she is obviously a victim in this situation. It is HIGHLY UNLIKELY that any Prosecutor's Office would ever persue any type of legal recourse against a minor in this case: she is the little fish, and her employer is the big shark.\nBesides that, I highly doubt any jury would convict a minor child who "doesn't know better"  (she has a right to one if she were ever charged with a crime and pleaded not guilty....but, again: there's probably a 1 out of a zillion chance that she would face any type of penalty at all).\nAlso, you could make sure that she gets immunity before she reports him.  Law enforcement agencies are usually pleased with the person who comes forth with honesty and lets them know what is going on.\n Anyhow, the thing that your daughter has to do to "Cover Her Anatomy" in this case is:  report the wages at the end of the year on her taxes.\n\nI had a friend whose Father made him report the (little bit) of money he earned from airbrushing art and shoveling neighbor's walkways.  To my best knowledge, if you do odd jobs (such as mowing neighbor's yards for 20 bucks, paper route, etc.) you are supposed to report that income at the end of the year.\n\nEveryone knows that the IRS has bigger fish to fry than picking on teenagers for earning a little spending money.\n\nI wouldn't worry one single bit.  And I'd report that guy immediately.  In fact, I'd first threaten to turn him in if he doesn't pay her.  Then, after receiving payment (he really doesn't want to get reported--there's a good chance that, after being threatened, he would pay her what is owed), I'd report him anyway. lol
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First off, you want to call the court clerk at the last viable moment to ask for a postponement.  This will make the officer who pulled you over have to change his schedule in order to make it to the next hearing.  When you go to that one, dress nicely and be courteous, especially to the clerks.  When you check in ask to speak to the prosecutor and ask if the officer has checked in.  The reason why you want to do this is if the officer is not present, they will have to dismiss the charges because it is your word against thiers....and if they aren't there....then they can not support their words.\n\nYour defense can be that you were not shown the radar gun, you were not supplied with proof that the radar gun was calibrated....etc.\n\nBut, you may be able to avoid all that "lying" and talk to the prosecutor.  In most cases, they are only concerned with getting the fine, but you have to be concerned abou the fine and the points which will cost you more in the end due to insurance premiums.  Inform them that you are pleading not guilty and request that the charges be dropped or moved to a non moving violation.  They do this everyday...so they won't be surprised and will handle vitrually the whole conversation.\n\nIn the end, you can't go to jail for driving a car unless it's stolen or your hit someone with it....so relax.  If you were going to jail they would have handcuffed you there and not ordered you to appear in court.
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Why does everybody think its better to hit the person who has more harder for the same thing? You committed the crime you suffer the punishment, whatever it is. It's the same mentality as these people who claim that rich people get off light on crimes. I think its all a matter of resenting those who have money and a desire to take it away from them. Go out and earn it yourself if you want to be rich.\n\nWhy should the penalty for speeding be a monetary fine? Why shouldn't it be something more appropriate like picking up litter along the highway? Seems a lot more sensible to me. The reason its money is so the government has another excuse to reach into your pocket. Why are you so eager to take money from one group to give to the government?
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To find the optimum speed to minimize the cost: \n1. Find an equation for the total cost of one trip based on the speed (v)\n2. Find the derivative with respect to v and set this equal to zero\n3. Solve for v\n4. Confirm that solution is the minimum\n\n1) T (total time) = 110 / v hr\n    C = (v^2)/500 $/hr.\n    W = $7.50\n\nf(x) = Ct * Wt = total cost\nf(x) = (v^2)/500*(110/v) + 7.50*(110/v)\nf(x) = 0.22v + 825/v\n\n2) f(x) = 0.22v + 825v^-1\n    f'(x) = 0.22 - 1650v^-2\n    f'(x) = 0.22 - 1650/v^2\n    0 = 0.22 - 1650/v^2\n\n3) 0 = 0.22 - 1650/v^2\n    1650/v^2 = 0.22\n    v^2 = 7500\n    v = 86.6 mi/hr\n\n4) To confirm that 86.6 is the minimum of the equation, do one of two things:\n        a) Find f'(<86.6) and f'(>86.6) and see if the function is increasing or decreasing. If it's increasing, 86.6 is a minimum. If it's decreasing, 86.6 is a maximum.\n        b) Find f''(86.6). If it's >0, 86.6 is a minimum. If it's <0, 86.6 is a maximum.\n\nLet's go with option a for simplicity:\n\nf'(86) = -0.0031\nf'(87) = 0.002\n\nSince f'(x) increases across 86.6, we know that 86.6 mi/hr is the minimum value of the function, and will minimize the cost on a 110-mile delivery trip.\n\nI hope this helps!
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Roman please! Don't confuse the poor girl any more than she already is.  Which is  it, 23 or 24?\n  \nTat, Roman was on the right track with this one.  He had the right concept, but the wrong constant in the end.  Guess that's why the Caesars no longer rule.\n\nIf Greg now runs 35 miles today, then six weeks ago he started running 35 - 2(6) or 23 miles per week.  Letting m be the mileage run per week, and n the number of weeks he runs, then we come up with this equation for the mileage Greg runs each week he is on the program.:\n\nm = 23 + 2n.\n\nWe defy the normal convention of putting the constant at the end of the equation this time, because that was the mileage Greg started with, and everything else is added to it.
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Is your pulse back to normal? Was an actual actuary actually speaking, or was it an acting actuary, actually? You do know how to find entertainment. Did you pay to hear the actuary speak? I get excited watching paint dry (has to be semi gloss latex), but to listen to a real live (but not too alive) actuary, well nothing could top that. What are the chances that this actuary will live until he is 80 and is not involved anytime soon in a life threatening accident. Did you do the math? Is he  into extreme sports such as Chinese Checkers and Connect Four? I wish I had chosen that as my career path, instead I am stuck in  the same old same old as a Formula One race car driver. Some people have all the luck.
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Thank you! I have been trying to make this same point! They cannot apply for tax returns so they lose all that money! Where do most of the people on this website get their info from?
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Try selling it to a private party for as close to teh payoff as  possible.  What's the KBB value of the truck?  If that doesn't work, keep the truck and absorb the payments for a while longer.  When possible make more than 1 payment a month.  If he looses any money on a trade in, it'll just get rolled into the price of a new vehicle, increasing the payment even more.  Best bet, suck it up and pay it as quickly as possible.