Activity: Pandemic Moves

You can help u=your community by staying at home and by following gealth protocols during
Covid-19 Pandemic. While staying at home, help your family and health workers solve the following
problems.

1. The pandemic situation on Covid-19 taught us so many things. Your family's budget on foods and
other necessities was challenged. If your family's budget of P20,000.00 is split evenly into three (3)
major sections, namely: (a) food, (b) transportation and other expenses, and (c) savings and medication.

(a) Construct a function M(n) which would give the amount of money each of the n number of sections
would receive.
20000
𝑀(𝑛) = 𝑥𝑛
3

(b) If your family's budget iš split evenly into four parts, how much would each section have?

20000
𝑀(𝑛) = 𝑥𝑛
4
4𝑡
2. Many countries participated in the clinical trial of vaccines for Covid-19. Let 𝐶(𝑡) = 𝑡 2 +4 (in mg/ML)
be the function that describes the concentration of a certain medication in the bloodsteream over time
𝑡 (in hours).

a. What is 𝐶(0)? Why is that so?

4𝑡
𝐶(𝑡) =
𝑡2+4
4 (0)
𝐶(0) =
02 + 4
𝐶 (𝑡) = 0

𝑆𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑒, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑣𝑎𝑙𝑢𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑡 = 0 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝐶(0) 𝑖𝑠 0. 𝐼𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑣𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑠𝑢𝑏𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑡𝑢𝑡𝑒 𝑏𝑦 0. 𝑇ℎ𝑒
𝑜𝑢𝑡𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑏𝑒 𝑧𝑒𝑟𝑜. 𝑆𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑢𝑛𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑙𝑠𝑜 𝑎 𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑓𝑢𝑛𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑤𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑠𝑒𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑎
𝑣𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑖𝑡𝑠 𝑛𝑢𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑜𝑟 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑜𝑟 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑤𝑒 𝑠𝑢𝑏𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑡𝑢𝑡𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑠 𝑖𝑠 𝑧𝑒𝑟𝑜. 𝐻𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒, 𝑡ℎ𝑒
𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑑𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑚 𝑖𝑠 0 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑡 = 0.

b. Construct a table of values when t is equal to 0,1,2,3,4 and 5.

4𝑡
𝐶(𝑡) =
𝑡2 + 4
 4 (0)
𝐶(0) =
02 + 4
𝐶 (𝑡) = 0

4(1)
𝐶(𝑡) =
(1)2 + 4
4 (1)
𝐶(1) =
12 + 4
4
𝐶 (1) =
5

4𝑡
𝐶(𝑡) =
𝑡2+4
4 (2)
𝐶(𝑡) =
22 + 4
𝐶 (2) = 1

4𝑡
𝐶(𝑡) =
𝑡2 + 4
4 (3)
𝐶(3) =
32 + 4
12 3
𝐶 (3) = =
16 4

4𝑡
𝐶(𝑡) =
𝑡2+4
4 (4)
𝐶(4) =
42 + 4
16 4
𝐶 (4) = =
20 5

4𝑡
𝐶(𝑡) =
𝑡2+4
 4 (5)
𝐶(5) =
52 + 4
20
𝐶 (5) =
29

𝑡 0 1 2 3 4 5
𝐶(𝑡) 0 4 1 3 4 20
5 4 5 29

c. Interpret your answer in relation to drug concentration.

𝑚𝑔
𝐴𝑙𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑣𝑎𝑙𝑢𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑑𝑖𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑎𝑎𝑚𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡 𝑐(𝑡) 𝑑𝑟𝑢𝑔𝑠 𝑖𝑛 . 𝑊ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑡 = 0, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑚𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑜.
𝑚𝐿
4 3
𝑊ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑡 = 1 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑣𝑎𝑙𝑢𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑐(𝑡) = . 𝑊ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑡 = 2 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑐(𝑡) = 1. 𝑊ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑡 = 3, 𝑡ℎ𝑢𝑠 𝑐(3) = . 𝑊ℎ𝑒𝑛
5 4
4 20
𝑡 = 4, 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑐(4) 𝑖𝑠 . 𝐴𝑛𝑑 𝑙𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑙𝑦, 𝑖𝑓 𝑡 = 5 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑐(5) = . 𝐴𝑠 𝑤𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑠𝑒𝑒 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑎 𝑖𝑠
5 29
𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡 = 0, 1, 2 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑑𝑒𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑡 = 3, 4, 5 𝐻𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒. 𝑤𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑠𝑎𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑚𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡
𝑜𝑓 𝑑𝑟𝑢𝑔 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑒𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑡 = 0 𝑡𝑜 𝑡 = 2 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑑𝑒𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑒𝑠 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑡 = 3 𝑡 = 5. 𝐴𝑛𝑑
4 𝑚𝑔
𝑎𝑙𝑠𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑎 𝑠𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝑑𝑟𝑢𝑔 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑡 = 1 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡 = 4 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑚𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡 𝑖𝑠 ( )
5 𝑀𝐿
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4𝑡
Many countries participated in the clinical trial of vaccines for Covid-19. Let 𝐶(𝑡) = 𝑡 2 +4 (in mg/ML) be
the function that describes the concentration of a certain medication in the bloodsteream over time 𝑡
(in hours).

a. Determine when the maximum amount of the drug is in the body and the amount that time.

𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑥𝑖𝑚𝑢𝑚 𝑎𝑚𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑟𝑢𝑔 𝑖𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑜𝑑𝑦 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑖𝑛 2 ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒
𝑚𝑔
𝑎𝑚𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒 𝑖𝑠 1 ( )
𝑚𝐿

b. Explain within the context of the problem the shape of the graph between taking the medication
orally (𝑡 = 0) and the maximum point.

𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑠ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑝ℎ 𝑖𝑠 𝑔𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑢𝑝𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑑 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑖𝑡 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑐ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑥𝑖𝑚𝑢𝑚 𝑝𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑡 𝑡 = 2. 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑛
𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑝ℎ 𝑔𝑜𝑒𝑠 𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑛𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑑 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡 = 3 𝑢𝑝 𝑡𝑜 𝑡 = 5. 𝐼𝑡 𝑚𝑒𝑎𝑛𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑡 = 0 𝑡ℎ𝑒
𝑎𝑚𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑚𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑑𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑚 𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑒𝑠 𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑙 𝑖𝑡 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑐ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑥𝑖𝑚𝑢𝑚 𝑝𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑡
𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑑𝑒𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑖𝑡 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑠 𝑖𝑡𝑠 𝑚𝑎𝑥𝑖𝑚𝑢𝑚 𝑝𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑡. 𝐴𝑛𝑑 𝑤𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑠𝑒𝑒 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑝ℎ 𝑎𝑙𝑠𝑜
𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑎 𝑠𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑎𝑚𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑡 = 1 𝑎𝑚𝑑 𝑡 = 4. 𝑊𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑠𝑎𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡
𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑑𝑖𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝑎𝑚𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑑𝑟𝑢𝑔𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑑𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑚 𝑒𝑥𝑐𝑒𝑝𝑡 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛
𝑡 = 1 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡 = 4.

c. What are the asymptotes of the rational function?

𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑛𝑜 ℎ𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑧𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑙 𝑎𝑠𝑦𝑚𝑝𝑡𝑜𝑡𝑒.

𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙 𝑎𝑠𝑦𝑚𝑝𝑡𝑜𝑡𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑦 = 0

d. What is the meaning of the asymptotes within the context of the problem?

𝐻𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑧𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑙 𝑎𝑠𝑦𝑚𝑝𝑡𝑜𝑡𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑎 𝑚𝑒𝑎𝑛𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑐𝑟𝑖𝑏𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑒𝑛𝑑 𝑏𝑒ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑖𝑜𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝑓𝑢𝑛𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛. 𝑆𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒
𝑓𝑢𝑛𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑛𝑜 ℎ𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑧𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑙 𝑎𝑠𝑦𝑚𝑝𝑡𝑜𝑡𝑒, 𝑤𝑒 𝑑𝑜𝑛𝑡 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑠 𝑜𝑛 𝑒𝑖𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒
𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑝ℎ 𝑎𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑢𝑛𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑢𝑒𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑖𝑛𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑦. 𝑂𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑑, 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙
𝑎𝑠𝑦𝑚𝑝𝑡𝑜𝑡𝑒𝑠 𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑐𝑟𝑖𝑏𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑟ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑖𝑜𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝑎 𝑓𝑢𝑛𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑎𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑣𝑎𝑙𝑢𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑡 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑛
𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑓𝑖𝑐 𝑛𝑢𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟. 𝑆𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙 𝑎𝑠𝑦𝑚𝑝𝑡𝑜𝑡𝑒 𝑖𝑠 0, 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑠𝑎𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑝ℎ
𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 0 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑖𝑡 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑡𝑜𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑜𝑟 𝑝𝑎𝑠𝑠 𝑎𝑐𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑠 𝑧𝑒𝑟𝑜. 𝐻𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒, 𝑤𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑠𝑎𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒
𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑥𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑏𝑙𝑒𝑚 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑠𝑦𝑚𝑝𝑡𝑜𝑡𝑒 ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑑𝑒𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑒ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑖𝑜𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛
𝑜𝑓 𝑎 𝑐𝑒𝑟𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑛 𝑚𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑑𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑚 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑡 ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠.