Consider a homeowner who is replacing his 25-yearold natural gas furnace that has an efficiency...

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Consider a homeowner who is replacing his 25-yearold natural gas furnace that has an efficiency of 55 percent. The homeowner is considering a conventional furnace that has an efficiency of 82 percent and costs $1600 and a high-efficiency furnace that has an efficiency of 95 percent and costs$2700. The homeowner would like to buy the high-efficiency furnace if the savings from the natural gas pay for the additional cost in less than 8 years. If the homeowner now pays \$1200 a year for heating, determine if he should buy the conventional or the highefficiency model

Furnace:

A furnace is an enclosed area in which a high amount of heat is produced at a very high temperature to remove the valueless material known as gangue by the process of smelting. In this process, the base material is extracted from the ore found during mining.

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Given Data

• Efficiency of natural gas furnace, {eq}{\eta _{NG}} = 55\% {/eq}.
• Efficiency of conventional furnace, {eq}{\eta _L} = 82\% {/eq}.
• Ef...

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