A 54 mg of a vaccine is given to a patient to prevent measles.  The vaccine leaves the body at a rate of 4.5% per hour. Represent the number of hours that have elapsed hh days after the vaccine was initially injected into the body.     The number of milligrams of vaccine in the body after h days is how many times as large as the number of milligrams of vaccine initially injected into the body?     Define a function k that determines the number of milligrams of vaccine remaining in the body in terms of the number of days, n, since the vaccine was administered.

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A 54 mg of a vaccine is given to a patient to prevent measles.  The vaccine leaves the body at a rate of 4.5% per hour.

  1. Represent the number of hours that have elapsed hh days after the vaccine was initially injected into the body.
       

  2. The number of milligrams of vaccine in the body after days is how many times as large as the number of milligrams of vaccine initially injected into the body?
       

  3. Define a function that determines the number of milligrams of vaccine remaining in the body in terms of the number of days, n, since the vaccine was administered.
       

  4. After how many days were there 23 milligrams of vaccine in the body?
     
  5. After how many days were there 6 milligrams of vaccine in the body?
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