Calculating Pressure and Temperature in a Container of Argon Gas

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The discussion focuses on calculating the pressure and temperature of argon gas in a container with a number density of 1.50×10^25 and an rms speed of 465 m/s. The user successfully determined the number of moles in the container as 24.9 by dividing the number density by Avogadro's number. They also calculated the mass of argon as 0.9968 kg using its molar mass of 40 g/mol. While attempting to find the temperature using the rms speed equation, the user expressed uncertainty about the accuracy of their temperature calculation. Ultimately, they confirmed the pressure calculation was correct using the appropriate formula.
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The number density in a container of argon gas is 1.50×10e25 . The atoms are moving with an rms speed of 465 . What are (a) the pressure and (b) the temperature inside the container?

Vrms=(3KbT/m)^1/2

Na = 6.02X10^23 particles/mol

Ar=40u

p=F/A=(1/3)(N/V)mv^2

pV=NKbT


I started off with finding out how many moles there were in the container by taking 1.5e25 and dividing that by 6.02e23 and got 24.9 moles. I looked up Molar mass for Ar and got 40g per mol. The mass of the Ar is .9968 kg.

Then I am plugging what I found for m into the first equation to solve for T but the number for T doesn't look right. Am I on the right track?
 
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So I figured out that 1 atom of Ar = 6.627E-26 and pluged it into p=(1/3)(N/V)mv^2
and got the correct answer for Pressure.
 
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