How to Calculate the Safe Consumption Limit of Diet Soda Using Programming?

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The discussion focuses on calculating the safe consumption limit of diet soda based on the lethal dose of artificial sweetener. The program requires inputs of the lethal dose for a mouse, the mouse's weight, and the target weight of the dieter. The calculation involves determining the amount of sweetener per unit mass and scaling it to the dieter's weight, while considering that diet soda contains 0.1% artificial sweetener. A constant variable should be used to represent this fraction in the code.

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HI,
I have this problem that I need to code . But I have problem about how to find the math method.

A government research lab has concluded that an artificial sweetener commonly used in diet soda will cause death in laboratory mice. A friend of yours is desperate to lose weight but cannot give up soda. Your friend wants to know how much diet soda it is possible to drink without dying as a result.
Write a program to supply the answer.
The input to the program is the amount of artificial sweetener needed to kill the mouse, the weight of the mouse, and the weight of the dieter. To ensure the safety of your friend, be sure that the program requests the weight at which the dieter will stop dieting, rather than the dieter‘s current weight. Assume that diet soda contains one tenth of 1% artificial sweetener.
Use a variable declaration with the modifier const to give a name to this fraction. You may want to express the percentage as .001.


Please can someone help me how to find the quantity of diet soda to drink without dying.
It seems simple but I don't get it.

Thank you
 
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I would calculate the deadly amount of sweetener per unit of mass (from the firtst 2 inputs). If you multiply this with the third input you get the deadly amount of sweetener for the dieter. Multiplying the resoult by 100 should give you the amount of soda.
 

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