Question

Suppose you come home to a small, hot apartment in a well-insulated building on a summer afternoon. The appliance store has just delivered your new air conditioner, but you are too tired to install it properly. Until the sun sets, it will be hotter outside than inside, so you do not open a window.

(a) You take the air conditioner out of its box, set it on the dining room table, plug it in, and turn it on. What happens to the temperature of the apartment?

increasesdecreases    remains constant

(b) Suppose instead you quickly take all the ice cubes and frozen vegetables from the refrigerator's freezing compartment, put them into a bowl on the table, and close the refrigerator. What happens to the apartment temperature now?

increasesdecreases    remains constant

Answer 1