To determine her resting heart rate, an athlete counts her pulse for 10 seconds. She counts 9 beats in 10 seconds. What is her resting heart rate in beats per minute (bpm)?
Q. To determine her resting heart rate, an athlete counts her pulse for 10 seconds. She counts 9 beats in 10 seconds. What is her resting heart rate in beats per minute (bpm)?
Step 1: Determine the time frame: To find the resting heart rate in beats per minute, we need to know how many beats occur in one minute. Since the athlete counts her pulse for 10 seconds, we need to scale this up to a minute, which is 60 seconds.
Step 2: Calculate the beats in 60 seconds: The athlete counts 9 beats in 10 seconds. To find out how many beats would occur in 60 seconds, we multiply the number of beats by 6, because 60 seconds is 6 times longer than 10 seconds.Calculation: 9 beats ×6=54 beats in 60 seconds.
Step 3: Determine the resting heart rate: The number of beats in 60 seconds is the athlete's resting heart rate in beats per minute (bpm).Final Answer: The athlete's resting heart rate is 54 bpm.
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