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Major home appliances purchased in the United States are now labeled with bright yellow "Energy Guide" tags showing anticipated energy consumption. The tag on a recently purchased washing machine indicated the anticipated energy use would be 940 kW940 \mathrm{~kW}-h per year. Calculate the anticipated annual energy use in kilojoules. (See Question 8 for a definition of a kilowatt-hour.) At 8 cents/ kW-hr, how much would it cost per month to operate this machine?

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We are tasked to solve for the annual energy reqiurement for operating a washing machine given that it consumes 940kW-h940\text{kW-h} per year and the electricity costs 8 centskW-h8\frac{\text{ cents}}{\text{kW-h}}. We are also tasked to solve for the monthly cost of operating the washing machine.

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