Leland got stung by a bee at a picnic. He took a 50 milligram dose of medicine to help relieve the swelling and itching. The medicine has a half-life of 8 hours. He was very sleepy the rest of the day and wondered how long the medicine would stay in his system. Leland learns that he will finally
Leland got stung by a bee at a picnic. He took a 50 milligram dose of medicine to help relieve the swelling and itching. The medicine has a half-life of 8 hours. He was very sleepy the rest of the day and wondered how long the medicine would stay in his system. Leland learns that he will finally
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Leland got stung by a bee at a picnic. He took a 50 milligram dose of medicine to help relieve the
swelling and itching. The medicine has a half-life of 8 hours. He was very sleepy the rest of the day
and wondered how long the medicine would stay in his system.
Leland learns that he will finally stop feeling sleepy from his medicine when there is less than 1
milligram of the medicine in his system. When will that be?
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