Advertisement signs are commonly earned by taxi-cabs for

Chapter 11, Problem 27P

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Problem 27P

Advertisement signs are commonly earned by taxi-cabs for additional income, but they also increase the fuel cost. Consider a sign that consists of a 0.30-m-high, 0.9-m-wide, and 0.9-m-long rectangular block mounted on top of a taxi- cab such that the sign has a frontal area of 0.3 m by 0.9 m from all four sides. Determine the increase in the annual fuel cost of this taxicab due to this sign. Assume the taxicab is driven 60,000 km a year at an average speed of 50 km/h and the overall efficiency of the engine is 28 percent. Take the density, unit price, and heating value of gasoline to be 0.75 kg/L, $0.50/L, and 42,000 kJ/kg, respectively, and the density of air to be 1.25 kg/m3.