Questions 9-11 refer to the passage below.
        At 31, Dan Price was a millionaire. His company, Gravity Payments, which he set up in his teens, hadabout 2,000 customers and an estimated worth of millions of dollars. Though he was earning $1. Im a year. Hisfriend brought home to him that a lot of his staff must be struggling - and he decided to change that.       Before 1955 the poorest half of the population of the United States earned a greater share owealth than the richest 1%. t that year the tables turned - the top 1% earned more than the bottom 5the gap is continuing to widen. In 1965, CEOs in the US earned 20 times more than the ay 2015 it had risen to 300 times (in the UK, the bosses of FTSE 100 companies now earsalary of their average worker).
       After crunching the numbers, Price arrived at the figure of $70,000. He realized that he would nash his salary, but also mortgage his two houses and give up his stocks and savings.        Since then，Gravity has transformed. The headcount has doubled and the value of paymepany processes has gone from $3.8bn a year to S10.2bn. But there are other metrics that Prof.Before the $70,000 minimum wage, employees were having between zero and two bmongst the team, and since the announcement - and it's been only about four-and-a-half yehad more than 40 babies.         At the time, Seattle was debating an increase to the minimum wage to $15, making it the highe time. Small business owners werc fighting it, claiming they would go out of business. Tdit, Rush Limbaugh, whom Price had listened to every day in his childhood, called hinfail," he said.is company is a case study in MBA programs on how socialism does not work becauhad jumped overnight, and argued that it would make them lazy, and the company uncompetitive.
       Two senior Gravity employees also resigned in protest. They weren't happy that the salariessn't happened. Raising salaries didn't change people's motivation - Price says staffmotivated to work hard - but it increased what he calls their capability.
【題組】9.reasing his employee's salaries, the value of payments that the company processes$3.8bn a year to? (2%)
(A) $5.2bn.
(B) $10.2bn.
(C) $12.0bn.
(D) $2.5bn.