A tank filled with helium gas has been left in a hot car for hours. The mass

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A tank filled with helium gas has been left in a hot car for hours. The mass of the filled tank is \(21.2 \mathrm{~kg}\), and after you use all the helium to fill 100 balloons for a child's birthday party, the tank mass is \(20.8 \mathrm{~kg}\). You notice that the filled balloons are shrinking over time. Each filled balloon is roughly spherical and started out with a radius of \(200 \mathrm{~mm}\), but now each radius has shrunk to \(100 \mathrm{~mm}\). Some of the children are afraid the balloons will deflate completely. You estimate that the gauge pressure inside the balloon was initially \(50.0 \mathrm{kPa}\) and that this pressure must increase linearly with balloon surface area. You are puzzled by the shrinking because the air temperature at the party is \(35.0^{\circ} \mathrm{C}\). That causes you to wonder whether the balloons have an equilibrium radius or you should prepare the children for complete deflation.

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