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The price of electricity is usually quoted per kilowatt-hour. If your hair dryer uses 2,000 watts for 30 minutes, that is one kilowatt-hour.

So take the wattage rating of your hair dryer and divide by 1000 to get kilowatts. You specified 30 minutes, which is 0.5 hours; multiply the kilowatts by the hours to get kilowatt-hours. Then multiply the price per kilowatt-hour of your electricity to get the total cost.

For example: 1500-watt hair dryer for 30 minutes at $0.12/kW-h

1500 watts ÷ 1000 = 1.5 kilowatts

30 minutes = 0.5 hours

1.5 kilowatts x 0.5 hours = 0.75 kW-h

0.75 kW-h x $0.12/kW-h = $0.09

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