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Datlon's law of Partial Pressures states that in a gaseous mixture, the exerted by a gaseous component is the same as the pressure it would exert if it ALONE occupied the container. The total pressure is the SUM of the partial pressures.

For your problem $P_"Total"=P_"dinitrogen"+P_"dioxygen"$ $=$ $(20+42.8)*atm$.

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