Question

A typical adult human body contains approximately 2.500 L of blood plasma. How many grams of blood plasma are in the typical adult human body? The density of blood plasma is 1.03 g/mL.

Answer 1

Answer:

2,575 grams of blood plasma are in the typical adult human body

Step-by-step explanation:

Density is the property that matter, whether solid, liquid or gas, has to compress into a given space, so it relates the amount of mass per unit volume. So the density of a substance is the quotient between mass and volume:

$density=\frac{mass}{volume}$

In this case, you know:

• density=1.03 $\frac{g}{mL}$
• mass= ?
• volume= 2.5 L= 2,500 mL (being 1 L= 1,000 mL)

Replacing:

$1.03\frac{g}{mL} =\frac{mass}{2,500 mL}$

and solving, you get:

mass= 1.03 $\frac{g}{mL}$ *2,500 mL

mass= 2,575 g

2,575 grams of blood plasma are in the typical adult human body