Determine approximate number of capillaries in human body

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The aorta carries blood away from the heart at a speed of about 39 cm/s and has a radius of approximately 1.0 cm. The aorta branches eventually into a large number of tiny capillaries that distribute the blood to the various body organs. In a capillary, the blood speed is approximately 0.072 cm/s, and the radius is about 6.2 x 10-4 cm. Treat the blood as an incompressible fluid, and use these data to determine the approximate number of capillaries in the human body.

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