- Go to the website: http://bloodalcoholcalculator.org/
- Look for the BAC calculator.
- Enter in your state as Ohio, your gender, and your weight (your weight doesn't have to be real if you don't want to divulge that information).
- Enter in 60 minutes for how long you have been drinking
- Play around with the types and numbers of drinks. Note that there are more drink options than the ones that you see! Click the "Calculate my Blood Alcohol Level" button to see the result.
- Do the above stepuntil you get a BAC of 0.080 (the legal intoxication limit in Ohio and most states). This number must be exactly there!
- Take a screenshot of the BAC = 0.080 data by pressing the "PrtScn" (Print Screen) button on your keyboard.
- Open up Microsoft Word (or some other word processing program) and paste the result on the document. Make sure the values you entered and your result are plainly visible. Note: You may wish to crop and resize the screenshot.
1) Follow the directions above and paste the screencap as your answer to question #1
Instructions for questions #2 and #3:
Perform the following calculations using the same state, gender, and weight as above. Take a screenshot (as in above) and paste the screenshot as your answer to the questions below:
2) What would your BAC be if you double the amount of drinks you have from question #1, yet keep the time at 60 minutes?
3) Change the time in question#2 from 60 minutes to 180 minutes while keeping everything else the same. What is your BAC?
Instructions for questions #4- #8:
Answer the following questions as completely as you can. You do not have to provide screenshots for these questions. Use the website BAC calculator to help you get the answers to questions #5 - #7.
4) How does the body's ability to detoxify alcohol compare with consumption in the above screenshots (i.e. your answers to questions 1-3)? In other words, which one (detoxification or consumption) is fastest and which is slowest? Why do you think so?
5) Going back to your original BAC calculation (question 1), what would be the lowest number of minutes you would need to get your BAC down to 0?
6) How long would a 200 lb male have to spend drinking 10 average beers in order to have his BAC be exactly at 0.05?
7) If you are a 140 lb woman in the state of Ohio, what is the maximum whole number of margaritas that you can have over the span of 3 hours and still be technically legal (in terms of the legal BAC limit) to drive?Hint: Make sure you have margarita selected as a drink option!
8) Why is it a bad idea to rely on the calculations that you obtain from this website to gauge your fitness to drive after drinking?