Answer:
The government loses $1000 per tax payer, according to the following function:
[tex]y(x) = -1000*x[/tex]
Where "y" is the total money earned by the government and "x" is the number of tax payers.
Step-by-step explanation:
Let's call the monetary balance of the government after one year "y", where "x" is the number of tax payers. Since each tax payer, "x", pays a total of $1500 every year, but the government spends $2500 with each one of them, then we can build a function "y(x)", with the value of collected tax being positive while the cost of each tax payer is negative, as shown below:
[tex]y(x) = 1500*x - 2500*x\\y(x) = x*(1500 - 2500)\\y(x) = -1000*x[/tex]
The government loses $1000 per tax payer.
