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1.1 Can We Predict Maximum Heart Rate?

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Understanding heart rate can be an important tool for your own personal exercise training and for monitoring your cardiovascular health. One measure that is often calculated is your maximum heart rate, or HRmax. Your maximum heart rate depends on your age.

The table below gives data about the relationship between age and HRmax, measured in beats per minute.

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Describe the relationship between age and maximum heart rate.

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2.

Predict the maximum heart rate of a 35-year-old.

(Just make an educated guess. You'll confirm your prediction in a moment.)

The graph also shows this relationship.

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What is the maximum heart rate of a 60-year-old?

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What age would you predict for someone who has a maximum heart rate of 200 bpm?

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Write an equation that that can be used to determine the maximum heart rate of someone who is x years old.

Use function notation.

Using your new equation, check your answer to #2.

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What do you think are reasonable values for x in your equation?

Explain.

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While the formula found above is easy to use, researchers found it to be less accurate for women. They proposed the function H(x)=206-0.88x to estimate the maximum heart rate, H(x), for a woman that is x years old.

Find H(32) and interpret your answer in the context of this problem.

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Do you think it is possible to have a maximum heart rate of 100 beats per minute?

Explain why or why not.