This morning Haidar noticed that her dog, Aldi, seemed unwell. She took him to the vet, where he was diagnosed with an ear infection. The veterinarian prescribed an antibiotic called amoxicillin to help Aldi feel better. Haidar will give Aldi 150 mg of the antibiotic once each day for 10 days. Each time Haidar gives Aldi his next dose of medication, 40% of the previous dose remains in his bloodstream. Use what you know about recursive sequences and iteration to explore the mathematics related to this scenario.

1. Determine the amount of medication that is in Aldi’s bloodstream after Haidar gives him each of the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th doses of amoxicillin. Show your work.

24

step-by-step explanation:

if it takes 8 pounds to make 12 divide 12 by 8 and you get 1.5, 1.5 x 16 = 24

, and

for

step-by-step explanation:

we can analyze the pattern at which the terms increase. let us denote , , , so that we can call

note the following:

the pattern: to get the next term value, we just add the next term number (e.g. 1st, 2nd, to the previous term value (term values are the given numbers in the question, 1, 3, 6, 10, 15,

from , to get to , we add

from , to get to , we add

etc.

we need to form a recursive formula, a formula that has the next term as a function of the previous term. so a possible recursive formula can be

, and for

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step-by-step explanation:

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