Question

When you don't seem to get any better, you eventually end up in the hospital. The doctor orders 120 mg of medicine to be given twice a day. The nurse comes in with 6 tablets and tells you that there are 30 mg in each tablet. Is this the correct dosage? If not, how many tablets should you get?

Answer 1

It isn't the correct dosage, you should get 8 tablets.

Explanation:

First, if the doctors orders 120 mg twice a day, it means that you need 240 mg of medicine. That is calculated as:

120 mg * 2 = 240 mg

Then if each tablet has 30 mg, the number of tablets that you should get is calculated as:

`(240mg)/(30mg) = 8`

So, 240 mg of medicine are equivalents to 8 tablets.

8 tablets are different of 6 tablets, so the dosage given by the nurse is incorrect and you should get 8 tablets every day.