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This question starts off by giving us the reaction that shows how a breathalyzer test works, showing that ethanol is oxidized by dichromate to form acetic acid in chromium 3.
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So they give us this equation, and then they say that you are analyzing a breathalyzer test in which 4 .2 milligrams of k2cr207 is oxidized, and we're going to assume that the volume of the breath was 0 .5 liters, and the temperature was 30 degrees celsius, and the pressure was 750 millimeters of mercury, and they asked us what the mole percent of the breath was.
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So we're going to use the equation pv equals n -r -t.
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You'll remember this from general chemistry.
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This is the ideal gas equation.
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And so we have pressure that's right here.
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We have volume.
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We have r.
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That's a constant.
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And then we have temperature.
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So we're going to be solving for n here.
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And so n is going to be the number of moles of air in this situation.
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So this has nothing to do with the k2cr 207 yet.
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This is just how many moles of air are in this 0 .5 liters at 30 degrees celsius and 750 millimeters of mercury.
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So that's what we're going to do first.
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But first we have to convert the pressure to units that we can use.
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We want them in atm.
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And so to get that, we'll take 750 millimeters of mercury times one atmosphere is equal to 760 millimeters of mercury.
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And if we do that math, we will get, let's see, 750 divided by 760.
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That is 0 .99 atm.
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And then we also have to convert the temperature to kelvin.
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So to do that, we'll add 273, and that gives us 303 kelvin.
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So we'll go ahead and plug all this stuff in.
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So the pressure was 0 .99 atm.
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The volume was 0 .5 liters...