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A patient is given a 50 mg dose of medicine the medicines affective Ness decreases every hour at a constant rate of 40% what is the exponential decay function that models this scenario how much medicine will be left in the patient's system after two hours

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The following formula is used to find the answer.
D = 50 mg (0.6^n)
D is the dosage
n is at any hour
Using this formula and solving the equation for it, the answer is 18.
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