Your “calculated resting pulse” will be a number in beats per minute (bpm) that you worked out from counting your pulse and converting it to a 1‑minute value. Typically, it’s found like this:

  • Sit or lie down quietly for several minutes so you’re relaxed.
  • Find your pulse at your wrist (radial artery) or neck (carotid artery) with your index and middle fingers.
  • Count the beats for:
    • 15 seconds and multiply by 4, or
    • 30 seconds and multiply by 2, or
    • a full 60 seconds with no multiplication.

For example, if you counted 18 beats in 15 seconds, your calculated resting pulse would be 18×4=7218\times 4=7218×4=72 bpm, which is within the common adult resting range of about 60–100 bpm. Because this is a personal lab/worksheet question, I don’t know your exact counted beats, so you’ll need to plug in the beats you measured and do that multiplication to state your own calculated resting pulse.