Question

in a typical person, the level of glucose is about 85 mg/ 100 mL of blood. if an average body contains about 11 pt of blood, how many grams and how many pounds of glucose are present in the blood?

Answer 1

Let's note that 1 pint = 473.1765 mL, so 11 pints should be 5204.9415 mL.

We make a proportion out of the word problem

(85 mg glucose/ 100 mL) times (1 g/ 1000 mg) = 4.4242 grams of glucose