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Which of these factors may affect a person's blood alcohol concentration?

gender
race
blood type
age

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Answer: Age and Gender

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As one gets older the effects of alchohol become more pronounced, one reason is that the amount of water in our body goes down with age, contributing to higher BAC (Blood Alcohol Concentration), since alcohol is highly water soluble.

Because women generally have lower water content in their bodies than men, they usually reach a higher BAC despite age or weight. Women also have a lower quantity of an enzyme in their stomachs that breaks down alcohol which can cause high BAC

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