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A double-reciprocal (Lineweaver-Burk) plot of against for an enzyme is a straight line with slope and intercept (with in and in mM, so slope has units ). Using , the values are

  1. A,
  2. B,
  3. C,
  4. D,

Answer: C

The intercept equals , so . The slope equals , so .
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