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You are in the process of making ice cream. The recipe says heat all ingredients to 50C and cools it for 5 hours in a freezer. If the cooling rate of the freezer is 12C per hour. What will be the temperature of the mixture after 5 hours?

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Answer:

-10C

Step-by-step explanation;

The mixture is 50C and the freezer cools at 12C per hour which means in 5 hours the temperature of the mixture would have decreased by 60C because 12C * 5 hrs is 60C. You then do the math;

50C - 60C = -10C

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