What is the final pressure of helium and neon gas mixture in this case?

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The final pressure of a helium and neon gas mixture is calculated using the formula \( p = \frac{(n_1+n_2)}{(\frac{n_1}{p_1}+\frac{n_2}{p_2})} \). For 10.0 moles of helium at 5.00 bar and 5.00 moles of neon at 20.0 bar, the correct final pressure is 6.67 bar, not 10.0 bar as initially suggested. This calculation considers the ideal gas behavior and eliminates volume from the equations, confirming that the initial answer was incorrect.

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The answer given to the above question is Final pressure$=\frac{(10.0mol\times 5.00bar) + (5.00 mol \times 20.0 bar)}{(10.0 mol +5.00 mol)}= 10.0 bar$ Is this answer correct? if yes, How and why?

My question is while computing this answer, the volumes of each gas is not considered.

Note:- While computing the volumes of each gas, temperature is not considered as it is a constant.The computed volume of helium gas $=\frac{(10.0mol \times 8.314472 J/mol\cdot K)}{5.00 bar}=0.16628944 Litres$

The computed volume of neon gas $= \frac{(5.00 mols \times 8.314472 J/mol\cdot K)}{20.0 bar}= 0.02078618 Litres$

How to use this additional information to compute the final pressure of the gas mixture?
 
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We can treat noble gasses as ideal gasses, which means we can use the formula $p V = n R T$, which is independent of the actual type of gas.
Let the first container have $n_1$ moles, pressure $p_1$, and volume $V_1$.
Let the second container have $n_2$, $p_2$, and $V_2$.
Let the temperature be $T$, and let the final pressure be $p$.

Then we have:
\begin{cases}p_1V_1 = n_1 R T \\ p_2 V_2 = n_2 R T \\ p(V_1+V_2) = (n_1+n_2) R T \end{cases}
Since we do not know the volumes, we will eliminate them from the equations:
$$\begin{cases}V_1 = \frac{n_1 R T}{p_1} \\ V_2 = \frac{n_2 R T}{p_2} \\ p(V_1+V_2) = (n_1+n_2) R T \end{cases}
\implies p = \frac{(n_1+n_2) R T}{V_1+V_2} = \frac{(n_1+n_2) R T}{\frac{n_1 R T}{p_1}+\frac{n_2 R T}{p_2}}
=\frac{n_1+n_2}{\frac{n_1}{p_1}+\frac{n_2}{p_2}}= \frac{10.0+5.00}{\frac{10.0}{5.00}+\frac{5.00}{20.0}}=6.67\,\text{bar}$$

So it looks as if the given answer is incorrect.
The final pressure should be $p=6.67\,\text{bar}$.
 

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