"Statins" are used to keep cholesterol in check and are a top-selling drug in the U.S. The equation: S – 1.4x = 4.7 gives the amount of sales (S) of statin in billions of dollars x years after 1998. According to this equation, how much will/did people in the U.S. spend on statins in the year 2019? Answer: People in the U.S. will spend billion dollars on statins in 2019.
"Statins" are used to keep cholesterol in check and are a top-selling drug in the U.S. The equation: S – 1.4x = 4.7 gives the amount of sales (S) of statin in billions of dollars x years after 1998. According to this equation, how much will/did people in the U.S. spend on statins in the year 2019? Answer: People in the U.S. will spend billion dollars on statins in 2019.
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The Sales of Statin in the U.S are given by S – 1.4 x = 4.7 where x is the number of years after 1998 and the sales are in billion dollars.
The sales in the year 2019 have to be found.
Evaluate the value of x as follows.
x=2019-1998
x=21
Thus, x = 21.
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