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Question 9
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An athlete's oxygen consumption was measured at high altitude to study acclimatization. A student used a spirometer to measure ventilation in a single athlete after spending two weeks at high altitude. The graph below shows the spirometer trace produced: Spirometer trace graph of an athlete showing volume of air in dm³ on the y-axis against time in seconds on the x-axis. The mean oxygen uptake rate for this athlete at sea level is 0.032 dm3 s-1. Using these data, the student made the following conclusion: "My data show that acclimatization to high altitude reduces the athlete's rate of oxygen uptake at rest by exactly 25%."

Evaluate this claim, using the data from the graph.

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