Your doctor prescribe you to take 400 mg of medicine every eight hours. How many ounces of medicine do you take in a day?
400mg/8hr * 24hr/day * 1oz/28349mg = ? oz
To determine the number of ounces of medicine you take in a day, we need to know the weight or volume of one dose of the medicine in ounces. However, since you provided the dosage in milligrams (mg), we'll need to convert it to ounces.
To convert milligrams to ounces, we need to know the conversion factor. There are 28.3495 grams in one ounce. Therefore, we can use the conversion factor:
1 ounce = 28.3495 grams
First, let's convert the prescribed dosage of 400 mg to grams:
400 mg = 400/1000 grams
= 0.4 grams
Next, we convert grams to ounces:
0.4 grams ≈ 0.01410 ounces
So, for each dose of medicine (400 mg), you take approximately 0.01410 ounces.
To calculate how many ounces of medicine you take in a day, we need to figure out how many doses you take. Since your doctor prescribed 400 mg every 8 hours, and there are 24 hours in a day, you would take 3 doses in a day (one every 8 hours).
To find the total amount of medicine in ounces, we multiply the dose size (0.01410 ounces) by the number of doses in a day:
0.01410 ounces/dose * 3 doses/day = 0.0423 ounces/day
Therefore, you would take approximately 0.0423 ounces of medicine in a day.