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If a gas is moved from a large container to a small container but its temperature and number of moles remain the same, what would happen to the pressure of the gas?
It would increase.
It would be halved.
It would stay the same.
It would slightly decrease.

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
It would increase.

Reason: For an ideal gas PV = nRT. With n and T constant, pressure is inversely proportional to volume, so putting the same amount of gas into a smaller volume raises the pressure (e.g., halving V doubles P).