A 100-pound patient needs 15 mg/kg/day of amoxicillin for seven days. In total...??
A. 4.76 milligrams
B. 47.72 milligrams
C. 476 milligrams
D. 4.772 grams
Answer:
15 mg/kg/day x 7 days = 105mg/kg
45.45 kg = 100 lb
1000mg = 1 g
105mg/kg x 45.45 lb = 4772.25mg or 4.772 g
Answer D
If you can't do simple math, you might want to consider a different career. Put D on your homework. Note that's a suppressive, not a therapeutic, dose of amoxicillin, and you'll have to give it in a convenient form, and the exact dose isn't that important, so it's absolutely silly to take this out to four digits. Even taking it to two digits is bizarre.
D.
Read WWD's answer again, and take it to heart. Your homework problems don't reflect the real world, but you WILL need those math skills in order to not kill people.
Have you considered a job where people's lives aren't at stake?
Please?
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