Question: A chemist identifies compounds by identifying bright lines in their spectra. She does so by heating the compounds until they glow, sending the light through

A chemist identifies compounds by identifying bright lines in their spectra. She does so by heating the compounds until they glow, sending the light through a diffraction grating, and measuring the positions of first-order spectral lines on a detector 15.0 cmcm behind the grating. Unfortunately, she has lost the card that gives the specifications of the grating. Fortunately, she has a known compound that she can use to calibrate the grating. She heats the known compound, which emits light at a wavelength of 421 nmnm, and observes a spectral line 9.95 cmcm from the center of the diffraction pattern.
Part A
What is the wavelength emitted by compound AA that have spectral line detected at position 8.55 cmcm?
Part B
What is the wavelength emitted by compound BB that have spectral line detected at position 12.15 cmcm?
Express your answer with the appropriate units.

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