The patient is complaining of a severe headache. The nurse takes the patient's blood pressure and finds it to be 240/110 . What is the pulse pressure?
a. 110
b. 240
c. 130
d. 350
C
The difference between systolic pressure and diastolic pressure is the pulse pressure. For a blood pressure of 240/110 , the pulse pressure is 130 . The diastolic pressure is 110 . The systolic pressure is 240 . The sum of the systolic and diastolic pressures is 350 .
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What will be an ideal response?