If You Exhaled Normally into the Environment, and Then Blew

question 9

Multiple Choice

If you exhaled normally into the environment, and then blew all of the air that you could into a balloon, the volume of air in the balloon would represent the

• A)functional residual capacity (FRC).
• B)expiratory capacity (EC).
• C)inspiratory reserve volume (IRV).
• D)vital capacity (VC).
• E)expiratory reserve volume (ERV).

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