6. A patient receives 1,000 mg of a medicine. Each hour, of the medicine in the patient's body decays.
a. Complete the table with the amount
of medicine in the patient's body.
hours since
receiving medicine
mg of medicine
left in body
0
b. Write an equation representing the
number of mg of the medicine, m, in
the patient's body h hours after
receiving the medicine.
1
2
3
c. Use your equation to find m when
h = 10. What does this mean in
terms of the medicine?
h