I Work done in cycle of a refrigerator (in Heat and Thermodynamics by Zemansky)

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I caanot understand what is happnening in chapter 6 part 7. The book has two equations for work done in cycle of a refrigerator
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I guess the first one is wrong.
Because in this cycle we have ##|Q_H| > |Q_L|## then ## |Q_L| - |Q_H| ## is negative and caanot be equal with ##|W|##.

Am I right?
 
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