Why might the medical assistant opt to take a patients apical pulse rather than radial?

If the medical assistant noted irregularities in the heart rate when palpating the radial pulse, they would opt to take a patients apical pulse for a full minute to make sure they are accurately counting the number of heartbeats per minute.

Iam not sure but to me it with be a or dsorry if i was late! hope this ! : )if you really want me to find out the answer that is correct tell me and i will do more research but the a or d makes sense to me.