What is its coefficient of performance?

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Suppose you have an ideal refrigerator that cools an environment at -10.5°C and has heat transfer to another environment at 60.0°C. What is its coefficient of performance?
Transcribed Image Text:Suppose you have an ideal refrigerator that cools an environment at -10.5°C and has heat transfer to another environment at 60.0°C. What is its coefficient of performance?
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Given:  Temperature of the refrigerator is -10.5C and the heat of the other environment is 60.0C

To determine: The coefficient of performance.

The formula to calculate the coefficient of performance is K=T2T1+T2, where K is the coefficient of performance, T2 is the temperature of the cold environment and T1 is the temperature of the hot environment. 

Substitute -10.5C for T2 and 60.0C for T1 in the formula to calculate the coefficient of performance.

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