Question

A 68-kg runner expends 290 W of power while running a marathon. Assuming that 10.0% of the energy is delivered to the muscle tissue and that the excess energy is primarily removed from the body by sweating, determine the mass of bodily fluid (assume it is water) lost per hour. (At 37.0°C the latent heat of vaporization of water is 576 cal/g.)

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