A student strained her knee in an intramural volleyball game, and her doctor has prescribedan anti-inflammatory drug to reduce the swelling. The student takes two 220 mg tablets every 8 hours for 10 days. Her kidneys eliminate 60 percent of this drug from her body every8 hours. Determine how much of the drug is in her system after 10 days, just after she takesher last dose of medicine. Explain what happens to the change in the amount of medicinein the body as time progresses and why this pattern occurs. If she continued to take thedrug for a year, how much of the drug would be in her system just after she took her lastdose? Explain, in mathematical terms and in terms of body metabolism, why the long-termamount of medicine in the body is reasonable.

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