You work in a materials testing lab and your boss tells you to increase the temp

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You work in a materials testing lab and your boss tells you to increase the temperature of a sample by 37.8 degrees Celsius. The only thermometer you can find at your workbench reads in degrees Fahrenheit. If the initial temperature of the sample is 62.0 degrees F, what is its temperature in degrees Fahrenheit when the desired temperature increase has been achieved?

I have already submitted a wrong answer and the message read The temperature change does not depend on the freezing point of water. Can anyone walk me through this?

Explanation / Answer

62 F  means 16.67 C or (50/3) C

increase of 37.8 C 

therefore final temparature = 16.67 + 37.8 = 54.47 C

converting into Fahrenheit scale we get 130.05 F

 

The temperature change does not depend on the freezing point of water because

at the freezing(/melting) point the temp remains constant for state change to occur ,which increases the amount of heat required bring about the same change in temparature

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