Question

Medicine B comes in 30 mg tablets. A nurse is informed that a patient is to receive 180 mg ofmedicine B per day, given in three doses.How many tablets are required per day?How many tablets are required in each dose for this patient?To answer the first question, you may want to use the formula:Total dosage needed = Number of tablets needed Dosage per tabletAlways be careful about your calculated results and always check if your answer makes sense!

Answer 1

The patient must receive 180 mg of the medicine per day in three doses. Each tablet weighs 30 mg. We have to find the number of tablets required per day. We are given this formula:

Total dosage needed = Number of tablets needed / Dosage per tablet

We can solve it for the number of tablets and replace the values that we already know.

Total dosage neeeded = 180 mg

Dosage per tablet = 30 mg/tablet

Total dosage needed = Number of tablets needed * Dosage per tablet

Number of tablets needed = Total dosage needed / Dosage per tablet

Number of tablets needed = 180 mg / (30 mg/tablet)

Number of tablets needed = 6 tablets

Answer: 6 tablets are required per day.

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