A physicist must make sure that the temperature of a metal at 0 deg C gets no colder than -80 deg C. The physicist changes the metal's temperature at a steady rate of -4 deg C per hour. For how long can the physicist change the temperature?

1 Answer
Feb 11, 2017

20 hours

Explanation:

First let us take the metal as x

If the rate of decreasing temperature is -4C/1hr and the physician cannot decrease the temperature beyond -80C.

The time in which he can the physicist change the temperature or the time taken by metal to reach -80C

= -80C4C/ 1hr

= 804

= 20 hours

so the time in which he can the physicist change the temperature or the time taken by metal to reach -80C is 20 hours