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An antibiotic has a halflife of 36 hours. If a patient takes on 10 mg tablet every 24 hours. What are the highest and lowest amounts of antibiotic that will be in the patient's body every 24 hours after the patient has taken the drug a long time? Can you write equations for the 1) highest and 2) lowest levels of the drug the patient experiences as a function of the number of days the patient has been taking the antibiotic? My paperwork got accidentally thrown away but I approximated a peak level fo about 35 mg, though I think I was a little off.