The physician has ordered 1.0 g of tetracycline to be given every six hours to a patient. If your stock on hand is 500-mg tablets, how many will you need for one day’s treatment. Express the number of tablets as an integer.
To find the number of tablets needed for one day's treatment, we need to calculate how many 500-mg tablets are required to reach a total of 1.0 g (which is equal to 1000 mg).
Since each tablet is 500 mg, we divide 1000 mg by 500 mg per tablet to find out the number of tablets needed:
1000 mg / 500 mg per tablet = 2 tablets
Therefore, you will need 2 tablets for one day's treatment.
To determine how many tablets are needed for one day's treatment, we need to calculate the number of 500-mg tablets required to reach a total of 1.0 g.
Since 1.0 g is equivalent to 1000 mg, we can divide 1000 mg by 500 mg/tablet to find the number of tablets needed.
1000 mg ÷ 500 mg/tablet = 2 tablets
Hence, you will need 2 tablets for one day's treatment.