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Electric Bound: Contributing To The Demise of Our Planet?
Electric Bound: Contributing To The Demise of Our Planet?
Electric Bound: Contributing To The Demise of Our Planet?
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ELECTRIC BOUND
Contributing to the demise of our planet?
Pollution from global warming causes destruction to our planet and is increasing yearly. Electricity usage contributes to the rise in the temperature of the Earths atmosphere. It is killing our planet. So what can you do? usage with a view to decreasing it. I electricity in an effort to save planet choose to track my familys electricity Earth. We began turning off the lights usage. and air conditioning when we were not in the rooms. Please see our To track this usage, I asked my dad monthly electricity usage, which is for copies of our monthly electricity exhibited the table below. bills, which stated the number of KwH my family of 4 was using per Month KwH Our math teacher, Ms. Lemos, has month. We tracked our electricity made us very aware of this fact and usage over a 9-month period. I am August 9549 has given our 8th grade class at ISKL a sorry to say that our bills were project designed to save the earth. amongst the highest in the class! We were given the option of keeping Shocked by this fact, my family and I September 5871 track of either water or electricity were determined to try to use less
October 4008 5281 3021 4337 5117 5527 5243
To calculate the slope (rise/run): 1.I used my second month September that has 5871 KwH (2, 5871) and then my fourth month November that has 5281 KwH (4, 5281) which are both on the line. 2.To get the rise I did 5281-5871, which gives me a negative vertical change of -590. 3.To calculate the run, I subtracted 2 months from 4 months (4-2), which gave me a positive horizontal change of positive 2. 4.To get the slope I then divided the rise of -590 by 2. This gave me -295 as my slope. As the number of KwH decreases, the line slants down from left to right and thus gives me a negative slope. To calculate the vertical intercept: I used the month of September point (2, 5871). I plugged these numbers into the equation y = mx + b. This gave me: 5871 = -295(2) + b 5871 = -590 + b +590 +590 6461 = b Which gives me a vertical intercept of (0, 6461). Prediction: So, to calculate the number of months it would take my household to lower electricity usage to 300 KwH, I plugged 300 in for y: 300 = -295x + 6461 - 6461 -6461 -5900/-295 = -295x/-295 20.88 = x So, at the same pace of decrease in usage, it will take my family and I approximately 21 months to reach 300 KwH.