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-An experiment was set up to find a relationship between weight and systolic blood pressure in normal children. Using hospital records for 5000 normal children,the experimenters found that the systolic blood pressure was
Given approximately by P(x) = 17.5(1 + ln x) ,10 ≤ x ≤ 100,where P(x) is measured in millimeters of mercury and x is measured in pounds.What is the rate of change of blood pressure with respect to weight at the 80-pound weight level?

• A)0.19 mm of mercury per pound of weight gain
• B)0.01 mm of mercury per pound of weight gain
• C)0.22 mm of mercury per pound of weight gain
• D)0.25 mm of mercury per pound of weight gain