Drug effectiveness decreases over time. If, each hour, a drug is only 90% as effective as the

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Drug effectiveness decreases over time. If, each hour, a drug is only 90% as effective as the previous hour, at some point the patient will not be receiving enough medication and must receive another dose. If the initial dose was 200 mg and the drug was administered 3 hr ago, the expression 200(0.90)3, which equals 145.8, represents the amount of effective medication still in the system. (The exponent is equal to the number of hours since the drug was administered.) The amount of medication still available in the system is given by the function ƒ(t) = 200(0.90)t. In this model, t is in hours and ƒ(t) is in milligrams. How long will it take for this initial dose to reach the dangerously low level of 50 mg? Round the answer to the nearest tenth.

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College Algebra

ISBN: 978-0134697024

12th edition

Authors: Margaret L. Lial, John Hornsby, David I. Schneider, Callie Daniels

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