SOLUTION: Kelly’s mom takes a 400 mg dose of aspirin. Each hour, the amount of aspirin in a person’s system decreases by about 29%. Create an equation that models this situation.How

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Question 1178872: Kelly’s mom takes a 400 mg dose of aspirin. Each hour, the amount of aspirin in a person’s system decreases by about 29%.
Create an equation that models this situation.How much aspirin is left in her system after 6 hours?

Answer by Solver92311(821)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!


Convert the percent decrease to a decimal.



Where is the quantity remaining after hours expressed in the units of measure of the initial quantity, is the initial quantity, and is the rate of decrease expressed as a decimal.

For your second question, evaluate


John

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