Question

A medicine is decaying at a rate of 5% per hour. If there were initially 1000mg of the medicine, how much is left after 4 hours? Round to the nearest tenth

(one decimal place)
Write an equation first, then plug in the value 4 for x

Answer 1

A patient was given a dose of the medicine 7 hours ago and there is currently 66 milligrams of the medicine Question 1040382: A particular pain relieving medicine has a decay rate of 16 % per hour. A patient was given a dose of the medicine 7 hours ago and there is currently 66 milligrams of the medicine in the patients bloodstream.

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