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Suppose you suffered a rib injury that inhibited your ability to take regular breaths due to the pain. if you needed to maintain the same minute volume as you calculated in this activity and your tidal volume was 0.2 l due to the injury, what would your respiratory rate have to be? show your calculations.

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Since we do not know the original rate we can not figure what the increase would be.
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