If the dry-bulb temperature is 32°C and the wet-bulb temperature is 26°C, What is the relative humidity?

Using the psychrometer tables and the table of saturation mixing ratios, answer the question about determining relative humidity with a sling psychrometer.


__________ %


62 %

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