The hookworm, Necator americanus, which infects some 900 million people worldwide, may ingest more than 0.5 ml of human host blood daily. Given that an infection may number more than 1,000 individual hookworms, calculate the total volume of host blood that may be lost per day to a severe nematode infection.

Minimum of 450million mL per day

Step-by-step explanation:

Given that the hookworm has infested 900 million people with each hookworm investing 0.5 mL per day and for an infested human or infection, you have a minimum of 1000 hookworm injesting blood.

The total number of blood injested by hookworm or lost from human per day is give by

1000hookworm per human×900000000human×0.5mL perday= 450 million blood lost per day

step-by-step explanation:

we are given a graph for system of inequalities.

in order to write the system of inequalities for the given graph, we need to find the inequality for each of the line separately.

let us find the slope of dotted line first.

taking two coordinates on the graph.

let us say (0,0) and (3,1).

let us find the slope of the line now.

slope of the dotted line would be =.

y-intercept of dotted line is y=0 only.

plugging slope m= and b=0 in slope-intercept form y=mx+b, we get

.

the line is shaded up of that dotted line.

therefore, for shading up we would take greater than inequality symbol > .

and because it's a dotted line we would take only > symbol in place of = sign in above equation of line.

therefore, inequality for dotted line would be

let us take two points (3,1) and (0,4) on the solid line.

slope of the solid line would be =.

for the solid line we have y-intercept b= 4.

plugging slope m= -1 and b=4 in slope-intercept form y=mx+b, we get

y = -1x + 4.

the line is shaded down of that solid line.

therefore, for shading down we would take less than inequality symbol < .

and because it's a solid line we would take ≤ symbol in place of = sign in above equation of line.

therefore, inequality for solid line would be

the graph in the attached figure

step-by-step explanation:

we have

using a graphing tool

the graph in the attached figure

the roots are ( x-intercepts) x=-0.5,x=1,x=3

the y-intercept is the point (0,3)