Imagine that you have a 7.00 gas tank and a 3.00 gas tank. You need to fill one tank with oxygen and the other with acetylene to use in conjunction with your welding torch. If you fill the larger tank with oxygen to a pressure of 145 , to what pressure should you fill the acetylene tank to ensure that you run out of each gas at the same time?

Question

Is the answer 62.1 atm

Answer 1

Answered above.

Answer 2

Imagine that you have a 6.00L gas tank and a 4.00L gas tank. You need to fill one tank with oxygen and the other with acetylene to use in conjunction with your welding torch. If you fill the larger tank with oxygen to a pressure of 145atm , to what pressure should you fill the acetylene tank to ensure that you run out of each gas at the same time? Assume ideal behavior for all gases.

Answer 3

87 atm

Answer 4

91.1 atm