A Problem-Solving Example: Estimation using on-line data search and
calculation
Find out how much it costs to leave a
60W light bulb on a day by doing an Internet search for the price of 1kW-h
(kilowatt-hour) of electricity in
I haven’t specified residential or
commercial/industrial so there will be a range of values. A search example is
-open http://www.google.com/
-type ‘nstar’ in the search box
-click on the
link to the nstar website
-click on ‘Rates
and Tariffs’
-enter the required
town info:
-it shows
$______ (not including fixed monthly customer fee)
Team leader: please copy this entire file into a Word file, then use Save As/ Web page (*.htm,*.html) to save it as ‘internet.html’ (you should include the extension ‘.html’!) into a flash drive or a temporary folder in the hard drive. After working with your team to search the price of electricity and calculate the cost to leave a 60W light bulb on a day, record the answers into boxes below for your team. Save and close the file, then upload it onto the ‘files’ folder in the server via ftp://www.students.umb.edu using the login information provided for your team.
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Price of 1kW-h of electricity as searched on-line |
Cost to leave a 60W light bulb a day (in dollars and cents) |
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