It Is a Hot Summer Day and Your Friend's Apartment

It is a hot summer day and your friend's apartment has no air conditioning. However, a brand new refrigerator lies unopened in the center of the living room. Being a creative person, your friend closes all the doors and windows of the apartment, unpacks the refrigerator, plugs it in, and turns it on. Your friend then opens the refrigerator door and uses a small fan to circulate the air past the refrigerator and throughout the room. After the refrigerator has operated for a few minutes, the average temperature in the room is

A) lower than it was before.
B) higher than it was before.
C) the same as it was before and the temperature is uniform throughout the room.
D) the same as it was before, but some regions are hotter and others are colder.