The equation for your line has a nonzero y-intercept. Beer's law does not have an analogous term. Explain the discrepancy between your ecperimental best fit equation and the theoretical Beer's law equation.

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The equation for your line has a nonzero y-intercept. Beer's law does not have an analogous term. Explain the discrepancy between your ecperimental best fit equation and the theoretical Beer's law equation. 

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