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It takes about four minutes to bake a potato in a 1000 W microwave oven. How much energy is used?

Answer: .07kWh

User Tulin
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Answer:

0.07 kWh

Step-by-step explanation:

User Nicolas Jean
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1000W * 4*60 s /( 3600 s/h) / (1000 W/kW)

= 1000*4*60/(3600*1000) kW-h

= 240/3600 kW-h

=1/15 kW-h

= 0.0667 kW-h (to 4 decimal places)

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