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Can you find the mass of drug X remaining in the body after an oral dose with only bioavailability and half-life?
Well $40\% \times 1 g = 400 \space mg$ That's how much drug is in your body's fluid compartments.
If the drug's half-life is $12$ hrs, the amount of drug in your body (after $24$ hrs) = $\frac{1}{2} \...
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Can you find the mass of drug X remaining in the body after an oral dose with only bioavailability and half-life?
Unfortunately, it is not so easy, the easy calculation you suggested might be a good approximation if the drug was administered intravenously via bolus, but for oral administration, as you say in the ...
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