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Lancelot59
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Homework Statement
CxHy gets burned in oxygen gas and makes CO2 and water. Given the partial pressure of water and the total pressure of the resulting mixture I need to find the empirical formula.
Homework Equations
Well PV=nRT is the obvious choice...but all the information you see there is all that's given. The only other thing I was able to find was the pressure of the CO2 just doing some subtraction. The problem doesn't state a volume, temperature or anything else.
Can I assume that temperature is a constant and eliminate it? How about volume? I'm not sure about that, if I can then it might help.