Medicine dosages are calculated on people's masses or weight. A dose is the amount of medication you take at one time. By contrast, the dosage is how to take the medication as prescribed: a specific amount, number, and frequency of doses over a specific period. In other words, a dose is simply the amount of medication you take at one specific time. The dosage is the dose, or amount of drug, plus when and how often to take it. A dosage guides how you take or give the medication that's been prescribed. Doses are usually measured in metric mass units such as milligrams or milliliters. A small child will receive less than a heavier adult. For a particular medicine the recommended dosage for a child weighing 10 kilograms (approximately 22 pounds) is 50 milliliters of liquid medication per day.
Instructions
If x = the patient's mass or weight in kilograms and y = medicine dose in milliliters per day, the equation to calculate the child's medicine dosage per day is y = 5x.
Create a table for children up to 30 kilograms. Be sure to label the columns of the table with the mass or weight in kilograms and the corresponding dosages per day in milliliters in the table. Show the table you created in your discussion post.