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A cancer patient undergoing chemotherapy is injected with a particular drug. The function D(h)=4e^-0.35h gives the number of milligrams D of this drug that is in the patient's blood stream h hours after the drug has been administered. How many milligrams of the drug were injected? To the nearest milligram, how much of the drug will be present after 2 hours?

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