Recall that Blood Alcohol Content (BAC) is a measurement of how much alcohol is in someone's blood as a percentage. However, police and the public typically omit the language for % when quoting the BAC and simply say, "BAC is 0.04."
Write an interpretation of what each of the following BAC values means in terms of how much alcohol is in the bloodstream in the form of the amount of alcohol per 1,000 grams of blood. You may want to refer back to the example in the lesson.
- BAC = 0.05
gram of alcohol for every 1,000 grams of blood.
- BAC = 0.2
gram of alcohol for every 1,000 grams of blood. - In the U.S., the average adult male weighs almost 200 pounds, and has about 6200 grams of blood. Explain about how many grams of alcohol a 200 pound male has in their blood stream if their BAC is 0.2.