As per Maxwell’s law of distribution of velocities of molecules of an ideal gas,

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Range of speeds of molecules increases as temperature is increased

Fraction of molecules having most probable velocity decreases as temperature is increased

Numbers of molecules having too low or too high velocities are low compared to number of molecules with intermediate velocities

All of the above

answer is D.

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Detailed Solution

Nv=4πNm2πkT32v2e−mv2/2kTWhere Nv=dNdv. Here, dN means number of molecules with velocities between v and v+dv.

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