Twenty-one grams of cyclohexane with a molar mass of 84 g/mol and twenty-five grams of ethanol with a molar mass of 92 g/mol are both volatile components present in a solution. What is the partial pressure of ethanol in pound force per square inch if the vapor pressures of pure cyclohexane and pure ethanol are 80.5 Torr and 52.3 Torr, respectively?  a.) 0.5268 b.) 27.4000 c.) 27.2378 d.) 14.2120 e.) 0.2749

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Twenty-one grams of cyclohexane with a molar mass of 84 g/mol and twenty-five grams of ethanol with a molar mass of 92 g/mol are both volatile components present in a solution. What is the partial pressure of ethanol in pound force per square inch if the vapor pressures of pure cyclohexane and pure ethanol are 80.5 Torr and 52.3 Torr, respectively? 

a.) 0.5268
b.) 27.4000
c.) 27.2378
d.) 14.2120
e.) 0.2749

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