Question

HELP PLEASE Juanelda's doctor has prescribed medication that she must take every 5 hours. She started the medication at 10:00 a.m. on Thursday. What is the first day on which she will take her medication at noon? Write an equation that will provide this answer.

Answer 1

this is hard ...

Answer 2

I got it bro

Answer 3

Ok ,
let's name of the person as "A" cause her name is troublesome
The question asks when will "A" take medicine at noon.
"A" takes her first dose at 10.a.m. so she can't take the medicine at noon on Thursday cause there r only 2 hours left for noon

Answer 4

So the day she take the medicine at noon is not thursday

Answer 5

It has to be a day which comes after Thursday. Also If we start counting from Thursday noon the nearest possible day which satisfy the question is Friday noon

Answer 6

Which mean exactly 24 hours after Thursday noon

Answer 7

If "A" starts take medicine on Thursday noon the total time until he will spend until he take a medicine at noon will be a multiply of 24
So
if n = the total no.of medicine "A" has take
5*n/24 = N (a whole number )

Answer 8

but that will happen only if "A" takes her pill at Thursday noon. But here she take the 1st pill at 10 a.m so u have to subtract 2 hours in order to get a multiply of 24

Answer 9

So the final answer is like this
\[\frac{ 5n - 2 }{ 24} = \mathbb{N} \]
the first value which will satisfy the above expression is the key to the answer

here , 10 is the value for n
So "A" will take his 10 th pill at noon
the day is
saturday

Answer 10

Thank you so much

Answer 11

u r welcome bro

Answer 12

that was a nice question bro...!!