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A vitamin C tablet contains 140 of a gram of vitamin C. You take 112 tablets every day. In simplest form, how many grams of vitamin C do you take every day?

User Tarun Upadhyay
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Answer:

3/80 of vitamin C everyday

Explanation:

Given :A vitamin c tablet contains 1/40 of a gram of vitamin c

To Find : how many many grams of vitamin c do you take everyday

Solution :

A vitamin c tablet contains a gram of vitamin c = 1/40

You take 1 1/2 = 3/2 tablets everyday

1 tablet contain vitamin C = 1/40

contain vitamin C = 1/40 x 3/2

that means you take 3/80 grams a day

User Benjamin Oman
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17808 grams of vitamin c taken everyday

dann that's a lot of vitamin c

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