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1. To see how many times (per minute) your heart beats. 2. To make sure your heart is beating properly, for example, a pulse rate of 68 in a healthy adult should cause no worries for doctors or whoever is trained to check the pulse (68 may be considered as a normal pulse rate). Hope this helped:-)

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