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A university campus has 200 classrooms and 400 faculty offices. The classrooms are equipped with 12 fluorescent tubes, each consuming 110 W110 \mathrm{~W}, including the electricity used by the ballasts. The faculty offices, on average, have half as many tubes. The campus is open 240240 days a year. The classrooms and faculty offices are not occupied an average of 4 h4 \mathrm{~h} a day, but the lights are kept on. If the unit cost of electricity is $0.082/kWh\$ 0.082 / \mathrm{kWh}, Find how much the campus will save a year if the lights in the classrooms and faculty offices are turned off during unoccupied periods.

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Given data:\pmb{\text{Given data:}}

nc=200n_c=200 no=400n_o=400 nfc=12n_{fc}=12 nfo=6n_{fo}=6 Ef=110  WE_f=110\;\text{W} t1=240  dayst_1=240\;\text{days} t2=4  ht_2=4\;\text h c=0.082  $kWhc=0.082\;\frac{\$}{\text{kWh}}

To find:\pmb{\text{To find:}}

csc_s - money saved per year

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