It's possible to estimate the percentage of fat in the bodyby measuring the resistance

Chapter 22, Problem 67

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It's possible to estimate the percentage of fat in the bodyby measuring the resistance of the upper leg rather than theupper arm; the calculation is sim ilar. A person's leg measures40 cm between the knee and the hip, with an average legdiameter (ignoring bone and other poorly conducting tissue) of12 cm. A potential differenceof0.7S V causes a cmTentof 1.6 mA.What are the fractions of (a) muscle and (b) fat in the leg?

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