{"id":70352,"date":"2021-11-03T13:24:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T13:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/03\/energy-efficient-model\/"},"modified":"2021-11-03T13:24:00","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T13:24:00","slug":"energy-efficient-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/03\/energy-efficient-model\/","title":{"rendered":"energy efficient model"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most appliance manufacturers produce conventional and energy-efficient models. The energy- efficient models are more expensive to make but cheaper to operate. The costs of purchasing and operating a 36,000-Btu central air conditioner of each type are given in the Table. These costs do not include maintenance charges or changes in electricity prices. <br \/>Table <br \/>Energy-Efficient Model <br \/>Conventional Model <br \/>Initial Cost <br \/>$4, 000 <br \/>$2, 700 <br \/>Capacity <br \/>36, 000 Btu <br \/>36, 000 Btu <br \/>Annual Cost of Electricity <br \/>$932 <br \/>$1, 332 <br \/>1. Express the total cost Ce(x) and the average cost C ?e(x) = (1\/x) Ce(x) of purchasing and operating <br \/>an energy-efficient model for x years. <br \/>2. Express the total cost Cc(x) and the average cost C ?c(x) = 1\/x Cc(x) of purchasing and operating <br \/>a conventional model for x years. <br \/>3. Are the total costs for an energy-efficient model and for a conventional model ever the same? If so, when? <br \/>4. Are the average costs for an energy-efficient model and for a conventional model ever the same? If so, when? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most appliance manufacturers produce conventional and energy-efficient models. The energy- efficient models are more expensive to make but cheaper to operate. The costs of purchasing and operating a 36,000-Btu central air conditioner of each type are given in the Table. These costs do not include maintenance charges or changes in electricity prices. Table Energy-Efficient Model [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-70352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research-paper-writing","tag-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}