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The Decomposition of a Drug in the Human Body
Asked by Irene Funk, student, Newark High School on June 16, 1997:
How can I determine the rate at which a drug is broken
down by the human body?
Unfortunately your question concerns biology more than mathematics,
and we simply don't have the resources to answer non-mathematical
questions.
You would need to know the biological principles specific to the situation
you have in mind, principles which would relate the rate of decomposition
to other factors. These principles would then be expressible as
mathematical formulas involving the quantities of the drug, and the
problem would enter the realm of mathematics at that point.
If you have such formulas and have a mathematical
question about how to use the formulas
to determine other things (such as how to get from a formula describing
the rate of decomposition in terms of the current concentration into
a formula describing the concentration as a function of time), please
post another question here and we'd be glad to address it.
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