Suppose that your uncle is decorating his house for Christmas. He uses 300 strands of lights each containing 150 light bulbs. Each light bulb consumes 4 watts of power. If he illuminates his lights 5 hours a day for 30 days and power in his area sells for $0.08/kWh, how much will he end up paying to light his home for the holidays? Note: kWh means kilowatt-hour. This means 1,000 watts of power usage for an hour. Please use Pólya's 4 step process to solve. Label each step (1-4 with the title) and while decribeing what you did on the step.
Unitary Method
The word “unitary” comes from the word “unit”, which means a single and complete entity. In this method, we find the value of a unit product from the given number of products, and then we solve for the other number of products.
Speed, Time, and Distance
Imagine you and 3 of your friends are planning to go to the playground at 6 in the evening. Your house is one mile away from the playground and one of your friends named Jim must start at 5 pm to reach the playground by walk. The other two friends are 3 miles away.
Profit and Loss
The amount earned or lost on the sale of one or more items is referred to as the profit or loss on that item.
Units and Measurements
Measurements and comparisons are the foundation of science and engineering. We, therefore, need rules that tell us how things are measured and compared. For these measurements and comparisons, we perform certain experiments, and we will need the experiments to set up the devices.
Suppose that your uncle is decorating his house for Christmas. He uses 300 strands of lights each containing 150 light bulbs. Each light bulb consumes 4 watts of power. If he illuminates his lights 5 hours a day for 30 days and power in his area sells for $0.08/kWh, how much will he end up paying to light his home for the holidays? Note: kWh means kilowatt-hour. This means 1,000 watts of power usage for an hour. Please use Pólya's 4 step process to solve. Label each step (1-4 with the title) and while decribeing what you did on the step.
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