6. Suffering from a sore throat, a student consumed a medicated losange just before class and was feelingbetter when class started at 8:30am. When class ended at 10:00am, her throat was hurting again. If thestudent consumes 4 medicated losanges the next day (all at the same time) and the half-life of themedication is 30 minutes, for approximately how many hours (total) would she stay symptom-free?(theoretically, assuming no saturation or tolerance)a) 2 hoursb) 2.5 hoursc) 3 hoursd) 4.5 hourse) 6 hours

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