Question

As a nurse, part of your daily duties is to mix medications in the proper proportions for yourpatients. For one of your regular patients, you always mix Medication A with Medication B in thesame proportion. Last week, your patient's doctor indicated that you should mix 150 milligrams ofMedication A with 120 milligrams of Medication B. However this week, the doctor said to only use 96milligrams of Medication B. How many milligrams of Medication A should be mixed this week?

Answer 1

As given by the question

There are given that the statement.

Now,

According to the given statement,

150 milligrams of Medication A with 120 miligrams of Medication B and use 96 milligrams of Medication B.

Then, the equation becomes:

`(150)/(120)=(x)/(96)`

Now,

Solve for x

So,