A simple math problem?

**Batpuff** · 11-13-2005, 03:07 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, 03:14 PM

Have you not figured out that we are not good at math?? :mad:

**Beef** · 11-13-2005, 03:15 PM

1?

Bentley16 · 11-13-2005, 03:36 PM

1 gallon

**Batpuff** · 11-13-2005, 03:41 PM

nope look at the question?

candy_cane_17 · 11-13-2005, 04:01 PM

16,313,000?

**ComfortEagle** · 11-13-2005, 04:27 PM

51,100,000

**Batpuff** · 11-13-2005, 04:28 PM

Nope

**Batpuff** · 11-13-2005, 04:29 PM

comfort eagle is close.

**ComfortEagle** · 11-13-2005, 04:31 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, 04:31 PM

51,135,000

**ComfortEagle** · 11-13-2005, 04:36 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, 04:38 PM

Tomcat68 is real close.

**Batpuff** · 11-13-2005, 04:42 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, 04:49 PM

53,550,000

**Beef** · 11-13-2005, 04:51 PM

so this was right......51,100,000?

**ComfortEagle** · 11-13-2005, 04:51 PM

Batpuff Wrote: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.

:Thumbs:

**Batpuff** · 11-13-2005, 04:55 PM

Sorry beef but nope, in the ball park Tomcat68 and comforteagle are the closest

**Beef** · 11-13-2005, 05:22 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, 05:40 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, 06:04 PM

the answer is 51,134,000 at 17 years added in for leap years.

football05 · 11-13-2005, 06:25 PM

thats a trick question BAT......I also got 51,100,000

**thetribe** · 11-13-2005, 06:27 PM

Good job bat, you stumped some of them.

**Batpuff** · 11-13-2005, 07:35 PM

yea it got me too

**Beef** · 11-13-2005, 08:11 PM

Batpuff Wrote: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 Smile