Question

Medal
The daily adult dosage for a particular drug is 10 mg/kg. How many grams of the drug should be administered daily to a patient weighing 176 lbs?
? g

Answer 1

\[\frac{ 176 lbs }{ 1 }\frac{ 0.454 kg }{ 1 lb }\frac{ 10 mg }{ 1 kg }\]

Answer 2

change 176lb to kg then multiple 10mg by the kgs to get the amount of mg

Answer 3

I prefer using 2.2 lbs to kilogram, but either works

Answer 4

(176*0.454*10) mg

Answer 5

the important thing in these questions i am assuming is to keep track of your units, dimensional analysis

Answer 6

799.04

Answer 7

that is mg

Answer 8

convert that into grams by \[\frac{ 799.04 g }{ 1 }\frac{ 1 kg }{ 10^3 g}\]

Answer 9

omg

Answer 10

thats hard

Answer 11

799.04 / 1000 GRAMS

Answer 12

0.79904

Answer 13

@harz360 , do you understand how he developed the equations to modify the lbs to kg? then mg to kg?

Answer 14

yes i do

Answer 15

so the answer is 0.79904

Answer 16

cool just making sure :)

Answer 17

is the answer 0.79904