Question: Boyle's law If you have taken a chemistry or physics class, then you are probably familiar with Boyle's law: for gas in a confined space kept at a constant temperature, pressure times volume is a constant (in symbols, PV = k). Students collected the following data on pressure and volume using a syringe and a pressure probe.
(a) Make a reasonably accurate scatterplot of the data by hand using volume as the explanatory variable. Describe what you see.
(b) If the true relationship between the pressure and volume of the gas is PV = k, we can divide both sides of this equation by V to obtain the theoretical model P = k/V, or P = k(1/V). Use the graph below to identify the transformation that was used to linearize the curved pattern in part (a)
(c) Use the graph below to identify the transformation that was used to linearize the curved pattern in part (a).
