Final answer:
The student's question is about calculating the pressure of gas in a tank using given mass, volume, and temperature, but the temperature is possibly a typo, and additional steps are needed to first convert the mass of sulfur to moles using the molar mass.
Step-by-step explanation:
The student is asking how to calculate the number of moles of sulfur in a 10.0 L tank at a temperature of 5.88 what is presumed to be degrees Celsius (assuming a typo and supposed to be temperature), containing 12.7 g of sulfur. However, the data provided is insufficient to determine the pressure, as the ideal gas law requires knowledge of the amount of gas in moles, the volume of the container, the temperature of the gas, and the universal gas constant to solve for pressure. Since sulfur is commonly a solid at room temperature, were it a gas, we would use the ideal gas law equation PV=nRT to calculate pressure (P) from moles (n), volume (V), temperature (T), and the gas constant (R). In this case, we would first need to convert the mass of sulfur to moles using the molar mass of sulfur, then use it in the equation.