Tama volunteered to take part in a laboratory caffeine experiment. The experiment wanted to test how long it took the chemical caffeine found in coffee to remain in the human body, in this case Tama's body. Tama was given a standard cup of coffee to drink. The amount of caffeine in his blood from when it peaked can be modelled by the function C(t) = 2.65e(-1.2+36) where C is the amount of caffeine in his blood in milligrams and t is time in hours. In the experiment, any reading below 0.001mg was undetectable and considered to be zero. (a) What was Tama's caffeine level when it peaked? [1 marks] (b) How long did the model predict the caffeine level to remain in Tama's body after it had peaked?

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