0.30P+0.25G=57A homeowner uses G hours of natural gas heat and P hours of heat from a pellet stove to heat her house one month, with a total of 57 therms of output. How many therms per hour does the pellet stove output?
Q. 0.30P+0.25G=57A homeowner uses G hours of natural gas heat and P hours of heat from a pellet stove to heat her house one month, with a total of 57 therms of output. How many therms per hour does the pellet stove output?
Given Equation: We are given the equation 0.30P+0.25G=57, where P is the number of hours the pellet stove is used and G is the number of hours the natural gas heat is used. We want to find the therm output per hour of the pellet stove, which is represented by the coefficient of P in the equation.
Isolate P: To find the therm output per hour of the pellet stove, we need to isolate P in the equation. However, since we are not given the value of G or the total hours used, we cannot solve for P directly. Instead, we can interpret the coefficient of P (0.30) as the therm output per hour for the pellet stove since it represents the therms produced by one hour of using the pellet stove.
Find Therm Output: Therefore, the therm output per hour of the pellet stove is 0.30 therms/hour.
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