Question

A drug company has just manufactured 50.0 kg of acetylsalicylic acid for use in aspirin tablets. if a single tablet contains 500 mg of the drug, how many tablets can the company make out of this batch?

Answer 1

Here our first step is covert all weights to the same scale.

We have each tablet as 500 mg

So, we convert the 50 Kg into milligrams (mg)

1 Kg =10^6 milligrams or 1,000,000 milligrams

1 Kg = 1,000,000 mg

Therefore, 50 Kg = 50 * 1,000,000 = 50,000,000 mg

Since each tablet contains 500 mg,

The number of tablets the company can make out of this batch = 50,000,000/500 = 100,000 tables

The number of tablets the company can make out of this batch = 100,000 tablets