It’s easy!
Since you’re increasing 1.6% to $1252 you write the expression as:
=1252+1.6% of 1252
=1252+(1.6/100)*1252
=1252+0.016*1252
=1252+20.032
=1272.032
That’s your final answer
the answer is m=17
https://photomath.net/s/argDe9 shows how to get there
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Cosine again. Yay.
Put 36 into a fancy calculator with one of those cos() things. You get about 0.81.
So that's the ratio between x and 10.
So basically x/10 = 0.81, or 0.81 * 10 = x.
8.1 = x