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A gas has experienced a small increase in volume but has maintained the same pressure and number of moles. According to the ideal gas law, how has the temperature of the gas changed?

It has increased two times.
It has increased slightly.
It has decreased slightly.
It has stayed the same.

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
It has increased slightly.

Reason: PV = nRT ⇒ with P and n constant, T ∝ V. A small increase in V gives a correspondingly small increase in T (only doubles if V doubled).