A patient’s systolic blood pressure drops from 210 mmHg to 100 mmHg in 10 minutes after they took nitroglycerin. Calculate the patient’s rate of change in blood pressure in a min; calculate in a second.


a) -11 mmHg/min and -0.18 mmHg/sec


b) 10 mmHg/min and 0.167 mmHg/sec


c) 11 and 0.18


d) 10 mmHg/min