Medical assistant Micah is taking the vital signs of his 16-year-old patient, Eva, an average adolescent in relatively good health. As he prepares to assess Eva’s heart rate, how many beats per minute (BPM) would he MOST likely predict to register from Eva?

A healthy adolescent’s resting heart rate is generally about 60–100 beats per minute. Of the choices, 70 BPM falls within that typical range, so Micah would most likely predict 70 BPM. 30 and 45 BPM are unusually low, while 125 BPM is high for an average resting heart rate.

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