For an ideal gas held at a constant temperature, a graph of volume against the inverse of pressure produces which shape?

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1. For an ideal gas held at a constant temperature, a graph of volume against the inverse of pressure produces which shape?

A straight line

A circle

A parabola

A hyperbola

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Boyle’s Law states that pressure times volume is constant at fixed temperature, meaning volume is directly proportional to the inverse of pressure — which plots as a straight line through the origin.