Suppose you have a clothes dryer that uses 4000 watts of power and run it for an average year f 1 hour each day if you pay the utility company 14 cents per kilowatt-hour of electric what is the average daily cost to run your dryer ? How much would you save in a year if you replace it with a more efficient model that uses only 2000 watts ?

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Suppose you have a clothes dryer that uses 4000 watts of power and run it for an average year f 1 hour each day if you pay the utility company 14 cents per kilowatt-hour of electric what is the average daily cost to run your dryer ? How much would you save in a year if you replace it with a more efficient model that uses only 2000 watts ? 

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