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If a refrigerator is a heat pump that follows the first law of thermodynamics, how much heat was removed from food inside of the refrigerator if it released 222J of energy to the room?

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by following the first law of thermodynamics, i think the refrigerator moved 222 J of energy from the food.
This will make the food colder but at the same time releasing the exact amount to the environment around it.
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