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Alright, here's my problem:

22. Home Electricity Use The rate at which your home consumes electricity is measured in kilowatts. If your home consumes electricity at the rate of 1 kilowatt for 1 hour, you will be charged for 1 "kilowatt-hour" of electricity. Suppose that the average consumption rate for a certain home is modeled by the function C(t)=3.92.4sin(πt12) where C(t) is measured in kilowatts and t is the number of hours past midnight. Find the average daily consumption for this home, measured in kilowatt-hours.

 

Here's what I know:

The function is over the interval [0,24] and we need an integral. We also need the formula to find the average value of a function. Here's my equation:

1242403.92.4sin(πt12)dt

Upon solving the integral, I get:

124(3.9t+28.8πcos(πt12))[0,24]

Finally solving gives me:

t=3.9kilowatthours

 

Does this look right to anyone? Or wrong?

 Mar 17, 2015

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Yeah....I checked this with WolframAlpha.....3.9 is correct.....!!!

 

  

 Mar 17, 2015
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Yeah....I checked this with WolframAlpha.....3.9 is correct.....!!!

 

  

CPhill Mar 17, 2015

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