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A patient ingests 100 milligrams of a certain drug which dissolves away at a constant rate of 20% per hour. How long will it take before there are only ten milligrams left?

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100×20%=20mg is dissolved in one hour

20mg will be dissolved away which mean it will take 4 hours for 80mg to dissolve way

since it takes 20mg 1hour it will take 10mg half and hour or 30min to dissolve away which gives us a total of 4.5 hrs to dissolve 90mg away and leave us with 10mg

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Answer:

Answer:

The correct answer is 15.3 hours

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See the attached image below to understand why this is correct.

A patient ingests 100 milligrams of a certain drug which dissolves away at a constant-example-1
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