PLZ help me with these crazy ap chem problems

It_sGr82BeAGator
Fri, 28 Sep 2007 16:33:08 +0000

Clove, 4800m^3 does not equal 4800L. Look at my previous post above.
They want the balloon to be filled but they lose 20% in the process, so you don’t multiply by 0.20 because that wouldn’t even be close to filling the balloon
Think about it like this. If you wanted to fill a 5L tank with water but you lose 20% of the water that comes in, you have 80% of the water that is left. So you have to divide by .80 to account for this

Actually thanks for bringing this up. I’ve erred as well. You actually divide by 0.80 not 0.20 (or multiply by 5 as I’ve suggested) so you actually multiply the volume by 1.25