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Problem 4

A scientist injects 150 mg150 \(\text{ mg}\) of a substance into a test subject. Each hour, 8%8\% of the substance is removed from the body. Let sn s_n be the amount of substance remaining after n n hours, where s0=150 s_0 = 150 mg\(\text{mg}\). What is the explicit formula for the sequence sn s_n ?