Question

Without completing the calculations, determine what the new volume will be in the problem below. Also, explain how you were able to determine the new volume without completing the calculations. Pay special attention to how the pressure is changing. An 80.0-mL sample of carbon monoxide gas (CO) is stored at a pressure of x kPa. The pressure is doubled to 2x kPa. What is the new volume?

Answer 1

Boyles law

Pressure and volume are inversely proportional as the new variable changes from the known.

Double the pressure equals 1/2 of original volume, assuming temperature remains the same.

So 40.0 mL is the new volume as it is compressed.