Question

An adult person has a blood volume of about 5200 mL. How many pints of blood is this?

a. 11 pints
b. 10 pints
c. 9 pints
d. 8 pints

Answer 1

An adult person with 5200 mL of blood has roughly a. 11 pints of blood, because there are roughly 473 mL in a pint.

Step-by-step explanation:

The student is asking about converting blood volume from milliliters (mL) to pints. To answer this question, we need to use the conversion factor that there are approximately 473 mL in 1 pint.

Let's calculate:

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3. First, we have the blood volume of an adult, which is 5200 mL.
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6. Next, we divide the blood volume in mL by the number of mL in a pint:
   5200 mL ÷ 473 mL/pint = approximately 11 pints.

Therefore, the answer to the student's question is that 5200 mL of blood is equivalent to approximately 11 pints, which makes option (a) the correct choice.