SOLUTION: after a person takes his pain medication, his kidneys filter 35% of the medicine over a four-hour period. if a patient received medicine at 8 am on a certain day, how much will be
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Question 1035559: after a person takes his pain medication, his kidneys filter 35% of the medicine over a four-hour period. if a patient received medicine at 8 am on a certain day, how much will be in his blood stream at midnight of the same day?
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