If you aren't up to $120,000 in 2011 you were taxed at a rate of roughly 6% of your income if you made over $120,000 you were taxed at a flat rate of $8,000 if you were to graph this as a piecewise function to represent the tax for incomes between 0 and 750,000 what quantity would be represented on the y-axis

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If you aren't up to $120,000 in 2011 you were taxed at a rate of roughly 6% of your income if you made over $120,000 you were taxed at a flat rate of $8,000 if you were to graph this as a piecewise function to represent the tax for incomes between 0 and 750,000 what quantity would be represented on the y-axis
Type 1 for salary 
Type 2 for amount of tax

GPT-4o mini · Answer

In the context of the piecewise function you are describing, the y-axis would represent the amount of tax paid. Therefore, the correct choice is: Type 2 for amount of tax.