Final answer:
Dalton's law of partial pressures states that the total pressure of a mixture of gases equals the sum of the partial pressures of its component gases.
Step-by-step explanation:
Dalton's law of partial pressures states that the total pressure of a mixture of gases equals the sum of the partial pressures of its component gases.
This means that each individual gas in the mixture exerts the same pressure that it would if it were alone. The law is expressed mathematically as PTotal = PA + PB + PC + ... = Σ₁ P₁, where PTotal is the total pressure and P₁, P₂, P₃, ... are the partial pressures of the component gases.