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A Healthy 32-Year-Old Man Lifts Weights Regularly as Part of His

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A healthy 32-year-old man lifts weights regularly as part of his workout. In one of his biceps muscle fibers at rest, the length of the I band is 1.0μm1.0 \mu \mathrm{m} and the A\mathrm{A} band is 1.5μm1.5 \mu \mathrm{m} . Contraction of that muscle fiber results in a 10%10 \% shortening of the length of the sarcomere. What is the length of the A band after the shortening produced by muscle contraction?


A) 1.50μm1.50 \mu \mathrm{m}
B) 1.35μm1.35 \mu \mathrm{m}
C) 1.00μm1.00 \mu \mathrm{m}
D) 1.90μm1.90 \mu \mathrm{m}
E) 0.45μm0.45 \mu \mathrm{m}

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