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Chemotherapy. The dosage for Carboplatin chemotherapy drugs depends on several parameters for the particular drug as well as the age, weight, and sex of the patient. For female, the formulas giving the dosage for such drugs are
a. Suppose a patient is a 45-year-old woman and the drug has parameters
b. Use your formulas from part (a) to compute
c. Use your formulas from part (a) to compute
d. Compute
e. e) Interpret the meaning of the derivative
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