Answer:
A
Step-by-step explanation:
Hopefully this helps
It's going to be kind of crazy, but you need to use Pythagorean's Theorem for this. That will look like this:

. FOIL out the left side to get

. FOIL out the first of the 2 expressions on the right to get

, and the second of the 2 to get 4x. Our equation now looks like this:

. Combine like terms to get an equation that still has square roots in it that we have to deal with:

and

. We will square both sides to get rid of the square root sign.

. This is a polynomial now that can be factored to solve for x. Bring the 2x over by subtraction and set the polynomial equal to 0.

. Factor out an x, leaving us with x(x-2)=0. That means that x = 0 or x - 2 = 0 and x = 2. Of course if we are solving for the length of a side we know it can't have a side length of 0, so it must have a side length that is a multiple of 2. x = 2
Since the basis is from year 1 to year 2, calculate first for the difference of their percentages. That would be:
Difference = year 2 - year 1
Difference = 2.32% - 1.1% = 1.22%
We apply this same value of percentage increase from year 2 to year. Thus, the percentage for year 3 is:
% Year 3 = % Year 2 + percentage increase
% Year 3 = 2.32% + 1.22%
% Year 3 = 3.54%
It would be a > 12, move all terms to one side and then solve for x. make sure if you divide then you flip the term