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A Surprising Application of the Integral \( \int^T_0 ( 1 - F(x)) dx \) to Revenue Projection  

This article appeared in Mathematics Magazine (1993) and is contained in Classroom Capsules and Notes. From the summary, "The author describes an integral that represents the proportion of wages covered by Social Security and exposed to taxation."

Resource URL: http://mathdl.maa.org/mathDL/20/?pa=content&sa=viewDocument&nodeId=1769

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Subject classification(s): Univariate Distributions | Probability | Statistics and Probability

Creator(s): Allan Kroopnick

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