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Batpuff
11-13-2005, 01:07 PM
There is about a gallon of blood in an adult body. and the heart pumps 2000 in a day. If a person lives to be 70 how many gallons does the heart pump in a life time?

The simplest of answers may not be the right answer.

What is the answer?
Beef
11-13-2005, 01:14 PM
Have you not figured out that we are not good at math?? :mad:
Beef
11-13-2005, 01:15 PM
1?
Bentley16
11-13-2005, 01:36 PM
1 gallon
Batpuff
11-13-2005, 01:41 PM
nope look at the question?
candy_cane_17
11-13-2005, 02:01 PM
16,313,000?
ComfortEagle
11-13-2005, 02:27 PM
51,100,000
Batpuff
11-13-2005, 02:28 PM
Nope
Batpuff
11-13-2005, 02:29 PM
comfort eagle is close.
ComfortEagle
11-13-2005, 02:31 PM
Oh, and here are some blood center facts:

The heart pumps one gallon of blood every minute, that's actually around 1,500 times a day. From the moment our heart starts working it pumps 100,000 times a day until we die.
Tomcat68
11-13-2005, 02:31 PM
51,135,000
ComfortEagle
11-13-2005, 02:36 PM
Our hearts pump about 40 million gallons of blood in a lifetime. Your heart could fill a built-in swimming pool in about 25 days if you had enough blood to spare. But that might be difficult because your whole body contains just a little more than one gallon of blood.
Batpuff
11-13-2005, 02:38 PM
Tomcat68 is real close.
Batpuff
11-13-2005, 02:42 PM
comfort eagle your right i was given a quest that was given to me and i got it wrong and never did get it correct until the person showed it to me in the book they got it from.
Beef
11-13-2005, 02:49 PM
53,550,000
Beef
11-13-2005, 02:51 PM
so this was right......51,100,000?
ComfortEagle
11-13-2005, 02:51 PM
comfort eagle your right i was given a quest that was given to me and i got it wrong and never did get it correct until the person showed it to me in the book they got it from.


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Batpuff
11-13-2005, 02:55 PM
Sorry beef but nope, in the ball park Tomcat68 and comforteagle are the closest
Beef
11-13-2005, 03:22 PM
It is impossible to tell from the info given because we don't know how many of the years that they are alive is a leap year.
ComfortEagle
11-13-2005, 03:40 PM
or how much blood they had when they were younger. notice he says an adult has that much blood, but how much does a kid have?
Batpuff
11-13-2005, 04:04 PM
the answer is 51,134,000 at 17 years added in for leap years.
football05
11-13-2005, 04:25 PM
thats a trick question BAT......I also got 51,100,000
thetribe
11-13-2005, 04:27 PM
Good job bat, you stumped some of them.
Batpuff
11-13-2005, 05:35 PM
yea it got me too
Beef
11-13-2005, 06:11 PM
the answer is 51,134,000 at 17 years added in for leap years.
That's what I didn't know....because going by 70 years...with a leap year every 4 years...you get 17.5...left me confused on where to go so my answer was with 17.5 in there. Don't know how a person does that though :)