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You patients needs 1.2 grams of their medication. The pills come in 800mg. How many pills should you give them? If they take this dosage two times a day, how many pills will they have taken after one full week.

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Answer:

2 pills; 28 pills.

Step-by-step explanation:

1600 mg(2 pills) rounds out to about 1.6 grams, (1.2 needed) so about two pills, and twice a day is 4 pills a day, for a week, so 4 times 7 is 28 pills over that time period.

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