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SOCIAL SECURITY COLAs Social Security recipients receive an automatic cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) once each year. Their monthly benefit is increased by the same percentage that consumer prices have increased during the preceding year. Suppose consumer prices have increased by
a. Express the adjusted monthly benefit of a Social Security recipient as a function of his or her current monthly benefit.
b. If Carlos Garcia’s monthly Social Security benefit is now
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