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if a hospital patient is given 50 milligrams of medicine which leaves the bloodstream at 10% per hour,how many milligram of medicine will remain in the system after 6 hours?

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if the medicine leaves the blood stream at 10% per hour and 6 hours goes by 60% of the medicine would be gone. 60% of 50 is 30. so 30mg would have left. so there is only 20mg left.

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