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A light bulb consumes 7650 watt-hours in 4 days and 6 hours. How many watt-hours does it consume per day?

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Explanation:

4 days 6 hours = 4×24 + 6 = 102 hours

so, it consumes

7650 wh in 102 h.

or as ratio :

7650wh/102h

to find how many wh it consumes in a day (= 24h), we need to bring the denominator of the ratio fraction to 24.

and then multiply the numerator with the same factor, so that the overall fraction value is maintained.

102×f = 24

f = 24/102 = 12/51

so, now we know, to get our answer we need to do

7650/102 × (12/51 / 12/51) = (7650 × 12/51) / (102 × 12/51) =

= 1800/24

the light bulb consumes 1800 watt-hours per day.

FYI :

in 1 hour it consumes

(1800/24) / (24/24) = 75 watt-hours.

in other words, it is a 75 watt light bulb.

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