Question

A basketball is pumped with air that is composed of three gases: hydrogen, oxygen, and

nitrogen. The three gases have partial pressures of 1.00 atm, 0.29 atm, and 0.99 atm.
What is the total pressure of the gas in the basketball?

Answer 1

2.28 atm

Step-by-step explanation:

According to Dalton's law of partial pressures the total pressure is equal to the sum of all of the partial pressures. Basically, just add the individual partial pressures to get the total pressure.

1.00+.29+.99=2.28atm total pressure