Component |
Fraction Found in the Blood Sample |
Elimination half life |
A | 13.58% | 18.6 days |
B | 69.78% | 41.9 days |
C | 16.64% | 18.6 days |
The most likely time that the politician was poisoned was 79 days before the blood sample was collected. There were three possible sources of the poison. Solid samples from each of these sources were available. Also, because the synthetic process used to prepare these sample was different they contained different proportions of each marker compound. The samples were carefully assayed to determine the amount of each marker component and the amounts were expressed as a present in the table below.
Component |
Fraction Found in Sample 1 |
Fraction Found in Sample 2 |
Fraction Found in Sample 3 |
A | 38% | 31% | 31% |
B | 31% | 31% | 38% |
C | 31% | 38% | 31% |
Your objective as the forensic pharmacokineticist in charge is to determine the sample most likely to have poisoned the politician! Estimate the fractions present when the posion was administered
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