The alternative minimum tax was created in 1969 to prevent the very wealthy from using creative deduction and shelters to avoid having to pay anything to the internal revenue service. but it has increasingly hit the middle class. the number of taxpayers subjected to an alternative minimum tax is projected to be n(t) = 35.5/1+6.89e^-0.86741 (0 lessthanorequalto t lessthanorequalto 12) where n(t) is measured in millions and t is measured in years, with t = 0 corresponding to 2004. what was the projected number of taxpayers subjected to an alternative minimum tax in 2010?