Large helium-filled balloons are used to lift scientific equipment to high altitudes. What is the pressure, in atmospheres, inside such a balloon if it starts out at sea level with a pressure of one atmosphere and a temperature of 10.0°C and rises to an altitude where its volume is twenty times the original volume and its temperature is -49°C ?  What is the gauge pressure, in atmospheres, in the balloon then? (Assume the atmospheric pressure is constant.)

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 Large helium-filled balloons are used to lift scientific equipment to high altitudes.

What is the pressure, in atmospheres, inside such a balloon if it starts out at sea level with a pressure of one atmosphere and a temperature of 10.0°C and rises to an altitude where its volume is twenty times the original volume and its temperature is -49°C ? 

What is the gauge pressure, in atmospheres, in the balloon then? (Assume the atmospheric pressure is constant.) 

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