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Originally Posted by marikas

3. The entropy change, ΔS, associated with the isothermal (i.e.
constant temperature) change in volume of n moles of an ideal
gas from volume V1 to volume V2 is given by the equation
ΔS = nR ln(V2/V1)
where R is the gas constant.
(a) If a compression occurs (V2 < V1) use Equation 1 to deduce
whether there will there be an increase (ΔS is positive) or
decrease (ΔS is negative) in the entropy of the gas.

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If then and then that means negative and therefore the complete product is negative too. Thus is negative so there is a decrease in the entropy of the gas.