"Increasing" and "decreasing" are references to what the y-values do when the x-values increase.
Attached is a copy of all four tables, marked with whether the y-values increased or decreased on each step (and it also shows how much that increase or decrease was.
The only table that does this is the top right table in the attachment, which is your second table.
$2058 and 33 cents or around $2058
I believe it is the commutative property, hope this helps!
15% and the corresponding 0.15 is by necessity unit-less; it's just a multiplier. If you run up a $1 bill and wish to tip 15%, multiply $1 by 0.15, obtaining $0.15.
Then the total due would be $1 plus $0.15, or $1.15.
Note that $0.15
-------- = 0.15 is unit-less
$1