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Please show work I'm very confused about how to complete these problems! Thanks.

Please show work I'm very confused about how to complete these problems! Thanks.-example-1

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To solve without a calculator, we can use the identity cos(180° - θ) = -cosθ, which means that:

cos 20° = cos(180° - 20°) = -cos 160°

Substituting this into the original equation gives:

-3(-cos 160°) - 6 = 19 cos θ

Simplifying this expression gives:

3 cos 160° - 6 = 19 cos θ

Using the fact that cos 160° = cos(-20°), we can rewrite this as:

3 cos (-20°) - 6 = 19 cos θ

Now, using the identity cos(-θ) = cosθ, we get:

3 cos 20° - 6 = 19 cos θ

Adding 6 to both sides and dividing by 19, we obtain:

cos θ = (-3 cos 20° + 6)/19

Using a table of trigonometric values, we can find that cos 20° is approximately 0.9397. Substituting this value into the equation above, we get:

cos θ ≈ (-3 × 0.9397 + 6)/19

cos θ ≈ -0.628

Since -1 ≤ cos θ ≤ 1, there are no angles between 0° and 360° that satisfy the equation to the nearest 10th of a degree. Therefore, the answer is that there are no solutions.

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