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An early morning jog
JBJ normally jogs for an hour before breakfast. One morning he measured his oxygen consumption and carbon dioxide production for 10 minutes while he was in bed drinking a cup of unsweetened black coffee, again during his jog, and for 10 minutes quarter of an hour after a breakfast of cereal with milk, a boiled egg, toast and butter.
The main metabolic fuels are fatty acids and glucose.
How much carbon dioxide will be produced, and how much oxygen will be consumed, by the total oxidation to carbon dioxide and water of:
the fatty acid palmitate (C15H31COOH)
glucose (C6H12O6)
What is the ratio of carbon dioxide produced / oxygen consumed for each?