What can change how strongly alcohol affects a person?

Answer options

Why

With the same number of drinks, a lighter person generally reaches a higher BAC than a heavier one. Spacing drinks further apart also matters, because the body clears alcohol only at a slow, steady rate.

About this question

Topic: Alcohol and drugs   License: Car permit

Part of these practice sets:

• How Alcohol Affects Your Driving

Where it applies: Asked in every state. Compare permit tests by state

Practice the whole set

This question is part of How Alcohol Affects Your Driving (15 questions). Take the full set and check your score.

More questions from How Alcohol Affects Your Driving

• Alcohol affects drivers in all of the following ways EXCEPT:
• After you have been drinking alcohol, what does a cup of coffee do to your blood alcohol concentration (BAC)?
• Which of these does NOT affect how high your blood alcohol concentration (BAC) gets?
• What happens to you as more alcohol accumulates in your bloodstream?
• Roughly how long does it take an average person's body to get rid of the alcohol in a 12-ounce beer?
• Which of these driving abilities can alcohol impair?
• Suppose you drive with a blood alcohol concentration of 0.04%. Which statement is true?
• After a single drink, about how long does the average person's body take to eliminate the alcohol?