If Methyl Alcohol Boils At 84 Degrees On The Hyde Scale, What Is Its Boiling Point On The Jekyll Scale?
May 12th, 2009
On a new Jekyll temperature scale, water freezes at 17 degrees and boils at 97 degrees. On another new temperature scale, the Hyde scale, water freezes at 0 degrees and boils at 120 degrees.
Heres the question, How do I figure this out???
If methyl alcohol boils at 84 degrees on the Hyde scale, what is its boiling point on the Jekyll scale?
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1. Megan | May 12th, 2009 at 5:32 am
In order to convert you have to figure out the formula. The Jekyll scale is 4/6ths size of the Hyde scale. Now you know the size, you need to figure out what you need to add or subtract in order to find the given temperatures. For example, what is 120 Hyde in Jekyll degrees? 120x(4/6) = 80. You need to add 17 to make it 97.
The answer is 84 x (4/6) +17 = 73.
I know this is correct because I had to do the same problem on mastering chemistry ;p
2. Anonymous | May 12th, 2009 at 5:32 am
personally, i would never try to boil methyl alcohol…
jk jk if the scales are linear, you make a proportion…
120/97 = 84/x
thats the easy way
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