The oxygen supply, S, in the blood depends on the hematocrit, H, the percentage of red blood

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The oxygen supply, S, in the blood depends on the hematocrit, H, the percentage of red blood cells in the blood:

S = aHe−bH for positive constants a, b.

(a) What value of H maximizes the oxygen supply? What is the maximum oxygen supply?

(b) How does increasing the value of the constants a and b change the maximum value of S?

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Applied Calculus

ISBN: 9781119275565

6th Edition

Authors: Deborah Hughes Hallett, Patti Frazer Lock, Andrew M. Gleason, Daniel E. Flath, Sheldon P. Gordon, David O. Lomen, David Lovelock, William G. McCallum, Brad G. Osgood, Andrew Pasquale

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