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A factory at a low elevation ships bags of popcorn to cities at high elevations. Why does the factory manager need to monitor the amount of air in each bag

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A factory at a low elevation ships bags of popcorn to cities at high elevations. The factory manager need to monitor the amount of air in each bag because when the bags of popcorn are delivered into high elevation cities, it will shrink due to the high pressure exerted by the surroundings towards the bag. As the elevation increases, the pressure surrounding it also increases.

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Step-by-step explanation:

Since factory is at low elevation, therefore, there will be more pressure. Similarly at high elevations there will be low pressure.

So, when bags of popcorn move from low elevation to high elevation the factory manager need to monitor the amount of air in each bag because if there are too many molecules in the bag then it will pop as it goes from high to low pressure areas.



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