Hareem takes a medicine to control his blood pressure. He takes a 25 mg pill in the morning. Suppose that 60% of the medicine is processed by Hareem's body by the time he takes a second 25 mg pill in the evening. What is the recursive definition for the amount of the blood pressure medicine in Hareem bloodstream after n hours?

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Hareem takes a medicine to control his blood pressure. He takes a 25 mg pill in the morning. Suppose that 60% of the medicine is processed by Hareem's body by the time he takes a second 25 mg pill in the evening. What is the recursive definition for the amount of the blood pressure medicine in Hareem bloodstream after n hours?
 
a.
 
 
a1=40, an=0.60an−1+25
 
 
b.
 
a1=0.60, an=0.40an−1
 
 
c.
 
a1=25, an=0.60an−1+25
 
d.
 
 
a1=25, an=0.40an−1+25
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