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A person has three liters of extracellular water in blood (vascular volume). Assuming 70% of the body weight is from water. Calculate the weight of this person.

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Answer: 4.29 kg

Explanation: If 70% of the body weight is from water, then 30% of the body weight is from non-water substances such as bones, muscles, and organs.

Let's assume the weight of the person to be x kg. Then:

70% of x kg is water weight = 0.7x kg

30% of x kg is non-water weight = 0.3x kg

Since the person has 3 liters of extracellular water in blood (vascular volume), we can convert this to kilograms using the density of water, which is 1 kg/L. Therefore:

3 liters of water = 3 kg of water

Since extracellular water is a component of the total body water, we can set up the following equation:

Total body water = Intracellular water + Extracellular water

Assuming that intracellular water is about 2/3 of the total body water and extracellular water is about 1/3 of the total body water, we can write:

Total body water = (2/3) x + (1/3) x = x

Now we can solve for x by equating the total body water to the water weight plus the non-water weight:

Total body weight = Water weight + non-water weight

x = 0.7x + 0.3x

x = 3 kg / 0.7

x = 4.29 kg

Therefore, the weight of this person is approximately 4.29 kg.

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