SOLUTION: A biologist wishes to determine the volume of blood in the circulatory system of an animal. He injects 6 milliliters of a 9% biologically inert chemical and waits until it is thor

Question 1123866: A biologist wishes to determine the volume of blood in the circulatory system of an animal. He injects 6 milliliters of a 9% biologically inert chemical and waits until it is thoroughly mixed with the animal's blood. Then he withdraws a small sample of blood and determines that 0.03% of the sample consists of the biologically inert chemical. Find the original volume of blood in the circulatory system.
Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
A dilution problem example
v, the volume in mililiters of the animal's blood

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