Question

Your child weighs 16 kg. Your research indicates that 40 mg/kg/day is the recommended dosage. What would the safe dosage be for your child in milligrams per day?

Answer 1

The safest dose would be 640 mg per day.

Hope this helps!

Answer 2

The safe dose for the child is:
`640\ (mg)/(day)`

Explanation:

We know that the conversion factor is 40 mg/kg/day

The child weighs 16 kg. This means that 40 mg per day corresponds to each kilogram of the child.

So to know how many milligrams per day correspond per day we must multiply 16 kg by the conversion factor

`16\ kg * 40\ ((mg)/(kg))/(day) = 640\ (mg)/(day)`