MAY 6TH, 2013

U N I T

P R O J E C T

BY: OLIVIA LEFEUVRE

ELECTRIC BOUND
Month August September October November December January February March April KwH 9549 5871 4008 5281 3021 4337 5117 5527 5243

Equation: y = -295x + 6200

How my family and I have saved Electricity

Over the rst 3 months as you can see my results have decreased. Then they increased and decreased and then kept increasing over the last 4 months. The most decreasing there was, is at the very beginning my results dropped 3678 KwH. Near the end, my results kind of stayed the same showing that my family and I have forgotten a little to turn off our electricity when it is not needed. It dropped the most after 5-months. I believe this happened because over time my family and I have been trying are best to turn the air conditioner off or lowering the temperature and we really got the hang of it after 4 months. Unfortunately we werent able to keep the KwH this low but didnt bring up the results up from the rst result. To bring our results to where they are now my family and I have been putting post it notes around the house reminding us to turn of the lights or air conditioner when we are not using it. The post it notes have also been telling us to put the air conditioner at a higher temperature. We will keep doing this for as long as we can try our hardest to bring the number of KwH a month to 300 KwH. It wont be easy but it is something my family and I can do. Prediction: 300 = -295x + 6200 - 6200 - 6200 - 5900/-295 = -295x/-295 20 = x I predict it will take my family and I approximately 20 months to reach 300 KwH.