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A doctor asks a nurse to give a
patient 250 mg (milligrams) of the
drug Simethicone. The drug is
available only in a solution whose
concentration is 40 mg Simethicone
per 0.6 ml (milliliter) of solution.
How many milliliters of solution
should the nurse give the patient?

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Answer:

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For this question, we write a proportion.

[tex]\frac{40}{0.6}=\frac{250}{x}[/tex]

[tex]40x=150[/tex]

[tex]x=3.75[/tex]

Thus, the nurse to give the patient exactly 3.75 ml of the solution.

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The volume of the simethicone solution given by a nurse is 3.75 milliliters.

Given:

  • Doctor asks a nurse to give a  patient 250 milligrams of the  drug Simethicone.
  • The concentration of a drug is 40 mg of Simethicone per 0.6 mL.

To find:

The milliliters of a solution to be given to the patient by a nurse.

Solution:

Mass of simethicone drug to be given = 250 mg

Let the volume of the solution with 250 mg of simethicone be x.

The concentration of simethicone in solution = 40 mg/0.6 mL

Mass of simethicone in 1 mL of solution:

[tex]40 mg/0.6 mL=\frac{40 mg}{0.6 mL}\\\\=\frac{400 mg}{6 mL}[/tex]

The mass of simethicone in 'x' mL of solution:

[tex]250 mg=x\times \frac{400 mg}{6 mL}\\\\x=\frac{250 mg\times 6 mL}{400 mg}\\\\x=3.75 mL[/tex]

The volume of the simethicone solution given by a nurse is 3.75 milliliters.

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