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The purpose of this lab is to come up with a continuous model for exponentia/decay
Dot assumes that her kidneys can filter out 25% of a drug in her blood every 4 hours. She knows
that she will need to take a drug test for an interview in a couple of days. She plans on taking one
1000-milligram dose of the drug to help manage her pain.
1.) Fill in the table showing the amount of the drug in your blood as a function of time and round
each value to the nearest milligram. The first two data points are already completed
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What might a model for this data look like?
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2.) Use a graphing utility to make a plot of the above data. Label axes appropriately.ay yobs
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3,) Based on your graph, what can you say about the data? Fer example, is there a pattern? Is
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4.) How many milligrams of the drug are in Dot's blood after 2 days?
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5.) How many milligrams of the drug are in Dot's blood after § days?
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6.) How many milligrams of the drug are in Dot's blood 30 hours after she took the drug? Explain
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7.) A blood test is able to detect the presence of this drug if there is at feast 0.1 mg in a person’s
blood, How many days will it take before the test will come back negative? Explain your
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9.) Since there is a constant rate of decay, a continuous exponential decay model can be used to
determine how much drug is in her system at any time.
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Where A\t) is amount of drug in blood at time t in hours,
Ag is the initial amount of drug, and
kis the rate of decay (it will be a negative number)
You will have to find the actual value of k that works for this model. Write down the
exponential decay model for the amount of drug in Dot's blood as a function of time:
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Now use that model to fill in the following table:
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11.) Compare your values with the estimated values in the model. How close were they?
Why might they be different?
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12.) Use a graphing utility to graph the original data along with a graph of the model on the
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14.) Using your model, how much drug is in her system 17 hours after taking the drug?
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15.) Using your model, how long will it take for exactly one-half of the drug to remain in her
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16.) Using this model, how long will it take for 0. 1 mg of the drug to remain in her system?
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47) Do you think the continuous decay model is more accurate for predicting the amount of
drug in her blood? Why? Or why not?
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19.) Reflective writing: Did this project change the way you think about how math can be
applied to the real world? Write one paragraph stating what ideas changed and why. If this
project did not change the way you think, write how this project gave further evidence to
support your existing opinion about applying math. Be specific.
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