You are given a 10ml blood sample. After doing a series of dilutions, you have made an overall dilution of 1/200th. In a 0.1ml sample from this final dilution, you are able to count 5 white blood cells. How many white blood cells were in the original sample? Express this quantity in cells/ml

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anonymous · Answer

There are 10000 cells per ml

anonymous · Answer

can you show how you got that please?

anonymous · Answer

first you should count how many cell are per ml then multiple them to dilution coefficient

anonymous · Answer

I'm still not understanding. Can you show the work as in the actual numbers please?