LBS Level: 3

Demonstration Title: Calculating Your Hydro Bill

 

Part 1: Understanding Electricity
Question

1. How many volts would you have if you had 5 amps of energy with 10 ohms of resistance?
(15 volts)

2. How many watts would be transferred if you had 50 volts at 5 amps? (250 watts)

 

Part 2: Calculating Electricity Use
Question 3

a.Calculate the total number of watts used for each device. (100, 200, 120, 80 watts)

b.Find the total watts used. (500 watts)

c.Calculate how many kilowatts that would be. (0.50 kilowatts)

d.Calculate the number of kilowatt hours. (2.5 kilowatt hours)

e.Calculate the cost of electricity for a 5 hour period at 7¢ per kilowatt hour. ($0.175)

f.Calculate the cost to run the same electrical devices, for the same number of hours per day, in
   the month of September? Remember that September has 30 days.
($5.25)

 

Part 3: Reading Your Meter
Question

4. Read the meter in the example above and record the meter reading. (6,254 Kwh’s)

5. Read the meter in the example above and record the meter reading. (5,247 Kwh’s)

6. a) Total number of kilowatt hours used in 2 months. (1,321 Kwh’s)
    b) Cost of electricity at 7 cents per kilowatt-hour, rounded off to the nearest cent.
   ($9.247 rounded off to $9.25)