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Answer:

-0.391 < x < 0.391

Explanation:

The Maclaurin series for cosine is:

cos(x) = ∑ (-1)ⁿ x²ⁿ / (2n)!

So the next term would be -x⁶/6!. When the absolute value of this is less than the error:

│-x⁶/6!│< 0.000005

x⁶ / 720 < 0.000005

x⁶ < 0.0036

-0.391 < x < 0.391

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