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On a very hot day, could you cool your kitchen by leaving the refrigerator door open?

(a) Yes, but it would be very expensive.

(b) Yes, but only if the humidity is below 50%.

(c) No, the refrigerator would exhaust the same amount of heat into the room as it takes out of the room.

(d) No, the heat exhausted by the refrigerator into the room is more than the heat the refrigerator takes out of the room.

Short Answer

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The correct option is (d).

Step by step solution

01

Principle of refrigerator

A refrigerator is a device to cool a lower temperature region by extracting heat from that region.

By doing work, heat is taken out from a low-temperature region (such as inside a refrigerator), and a greater amount of heat is exhausted to a high-temperature region (the room).

02

Explanation

On a very hot day, if you open your refrigerator door, it will not be possible to cool the whole kitchen because the heat exhausted by the refrigerator into the room is more than the heat the refrigerator takes out of the room.

Hence, option (d) is correct.

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