The pressure of Earth's atmosphere at sea level is approximately 1000 millibars, and it decreases by a factor of 2 every 7 km as you go up in altitude. a. If you live at an elevation of 1 km (roughtly 3300 ft), what is the atmospheric pressure? b. What is the atmospheric pressure at the top of a mountain that is 7313 7313 meters? c. By approximately what percentage does atmospheric pressure decrease every kilometer? a. The atmospheric pressure would be nothing millibars. (Round to the nearest integer as needed.) b. The atmospheric pressure would be nothing millibars. (Round to the nearest integer as needed.) c. By approximately what percentage does atmospheric pressure decrease every kilometer? The atmospheric pressure decreases by approximately nothing % every kilometer. (Round up to the nearest percent.)

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The pressure of Earth's atmosphere at sea level is approximately 1000 millibars, and it decreases by a factor of 2 every 7 km as you go up in altitude.

a. If you live at an elevation of 1 km (roughtly 3300 ft), what is the atmospheric pressure?
b. What is the atmospheric pressure at the top of a mountain that is
7313
7313 meters?
c. By approximately what percentage does atmospheric pressure decrease every kilometer?
a. The atmospheric pressure would be

nothing
millibars.
(Round to the nearest integer as needed.)
b. The atmospheric pressure would be

nothing
millibars.
(Round to the nearest integer as needed.)
c. By approximately what percentage does atmospheric pressure decrease every kilometer?

The atmospheric pressure decreases by approximately

nothing
% every kilometer.
(Round up to the nearest percent.)

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