Question

Medal
An IV solution is prepared by mixing 0.33 g of the active drug in powder form, with 7.7 mL of saline. Express the ratio of the number of grams of active drug to the number of mL of saline, as a fraction in lowest terms.

Answer 1

anyone please help me

Answer 2

well the ratio is
\[\frac{ drug }{ saline }\]

Answer 3

correct? or u could have it written as drug:saline

Answer 4

yes you are right

Answer 5

so plug in what you know into the equation/formula

Answer 6

0.33 / 7.7

Answer 7

yep. And now you want it to be whole numbers

Answer 8

So when you divide it you get .0428 which then converts into \[\frac{ 3 }{ 70 }\]

Answer 9

so thats in simplest form?

Answer 10

yup

Answer 11

thank you :)

Answer 12

I dont know how you would do it without a calculator though

Answer 13

no prob :)

Answer 14

thats ok we just need the answer some how

Answer 15

lol kk. hope this sorta helped

Answer 16

it really did :)