Question: You are cooking breakfast for yourself and a friend using a 1 200-W waffle iron and a 500-W coffeepot. Usually, you operate these appliances from

You are cooking breakfast for yourself and a friend using a 1 200-W waffle iron and a 500-W coffeepot. Usually, you operate these appliances from a 110-V outlet for 0.500 h each day.

(a) At 12 cents per kWh, how much do you spend to cook breakfast during a 30.0 day period?

(b) You find yourself addicted to waffles and would like to upgrade to a 2 400-W waffle iron that will enable you to cook twice as many waffles during a half-hour period, but you know that the circuit breaker in your kitchen is a 20-A breaker. Can you do the upgrade?


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