temperature by simply waiting a while before they are put into the
refrigerator to save energy. Despite this common-sense recommendation,
a person keeps cooking a large pan of stew three times a week and putting
the pan into the refrigerator while it is still hot, thinking that the money
saved is probably too little. But he says he can be convinced if you can
show that the money saved is significant. The average mass of the pan
and its contents is 5 kg. The average temperature of the kitchen is 23°C,
and the average temperature of the food is 95°C when it is taken off the
stove. The refrigerated space is maintained at 3°C, and the average
specific heat of the food and the pan can be taken to be 3.9 kJ/kg-°C. If
the refrigerator has a coefficient of performance of 1.5 and the cost of
electricity is $0.16/kWh, determine how much this person will save a year
by waiting for the food to cool to room temperature before putting it into
the refrigerator.