At 50 years old, Margie gets her first job that requires 3% pre-tax income deposits to Social Security. Margie makes $35,000 a year. Assuming she retires at 62, and Social Security offers a 2.5% rate to offset inflation, what will be the balance of Margie's Social Security when she retires?
$16,945.60
$1412.13
$12,915.00
$14,847.46

this may not be at all, but i use the same website you're using for school, and if i'm stuck doing one of these i try to look for it on the section.

the image is given below

since the options are not given so we draw it from the equation

the given equation is

y = (x-1) (x+4)

y = y² + 3x - 4

the above equation is a quadratic equation which will have two roots. if we draw the graph for it, it will look like this

my apex says that it is false