Refer to the Graph Showing Ventilation Rates in a Human

question 36

Essay

Refer to the graph showing ventilation rates in a human. As you run up a steep hill, your ventilation rate increases as you breathe faster and more deeply.This increase in ventilation rate is being caused primarily by an increase in the partial pressure of which gas carried in your blood? Based on the graph, what change in arterial PO₂ would bring about the same change in ventilation rate as an increase in arterial PCO₂ from 40 mm Hg to 50 mm Hg?

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Definitions:

Marginal Product

Marginal product refers to the additional output produced as a result of adding one more unit of a specific input, while holding other inputs constant.

Resource

An economic or productive factor required to accomplish an activity, or as a means to undertake an enterprise and achieve desired outcome.

Marginal Revenue Product

The additional revenue generated by employing one more unit of a resource, such as labor.

Productivity

The measure of efficiency in converting inputs into useful outputs in production.