How can we separate the cost of the electricity that generates the heat from a light bulb and the cost of the electricity that generates that same bulb's light?

A) By comparing the wattage of the bulb with the change in air temperature
B) By distinguishing sunk costs from marginal costs
C) By dividing the total cost in two
D) We cannot do it in any defensible way.


D

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