The lethal dose (LD50) for caffeine is 200 mg/kg and each cup of coffee contains 90 mg caffeine. a) How many cups of coffee should a person of 80 kg should drink at once to reach the lethal dose? b) If the person were to drink one cup of coffee per day for this number of days (calculated in 1) a)), would s/he be likely to die from an overdose of caffeine? c) If the person could drink exactly the number of cups of coffee you calculated in a) all at one sitting, would the person be guranteed to die? Why or why not?



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