A refrigerator maintains its compartment at while the kitchen air is at

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Problem

A refrigerator maintains its compartment at −5∘C-5^{\circ}\text{C} while the kitchen air is at 25∘C25^{\circ}\text{C}. If it extracts 600 J600\,\text{J} of heat from the compartment per cycle, calculate the minimum theoretical work that must be done on the refrigerator in each cycle.

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