If a hospital patient is given 100 milligrams of medicine which leaves the bloodstream at 14% per hour, how many milligrams of m

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pentagon [3]

3 years ago

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If a hospital patient is given 100 milligrams of medicine which leaves the bloodstream at 14% per hour, how many milligrams of m

edicine will remain in the system after 10 hours? Use the function A(t) = Iert. (1 point)

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IrinaVladis [17] · Answer 1 · 2022-09-21T12:08:46+03:00

IrinaVladis [17]3 years ago

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This word problem is represent exponential decay. Your starting value is 100 and your rate of decay is 14% or .14. Plugging that into the exponential decay formula we get 100(.86)^t where t=10. Solving the equations yields about 22.13.