Answer:
$893
Explanation: the complete question should be
The clothes washer in your house consumes 470 kWh of energy per year. Price of the washer is $360 and the lifetime of the washer is 10 yrs. Energy price in your city is 9 cents per kWh. What is the lifecycle cost of the clothes washer? (assume a maintenance cost of $11 per year)
SOLUTION
Given:
The clothes washe power consumption (PC) is 470 kWh
Price of the washer (P) is $360
lifetime of the washer (L) is 10 yrs
Energy price in the city (E) is 9 cents per kWh (Covert to $ by dividing 100)
maintenance cost (M) is $11 per year
Lifecycle cost = P + (PC × L × E) +M + L
Lifecycle cost = $360 + (470kWh × 10years × 9cents/100) + ($11 × 10years)
=$893
To solve this problem we will use the concepts related to Ohm's law for which voltage, intensity and resistance are related.
Mathematically this relationship is given as
Where,
V= Voltage
I = Current
R = Resistance
The value of the given voltage is 12V, while the current is 12mA, therefore the resistance would be
Therefore the resistance is
1) The equivalent resistance of two resistors in parallel is given by:
so in our problem we have
and the equivalent resistance is
2) If we have a battery of 12 V connected to the circuit, the current in the circuit will be given by Ohm's law, therefore: