We offer a problem to determine the necessary drug administration in order to keep a dogsedated with specific information on half-life for an exponentially decaying presence of the drug in the body. In the dog, an intravenous dose of 30 mg of pentobarbital sodium per kilogram of body weight will usually produce surgical anesthesia. Also in the dog, pentobarbital has a biological half-life of about 4.5 hours, due almost entirely to metabolism.You anesthetize a 14-kg dog with the above dose of pen…