Question

A pharmacist writes a prescription for his patient for 200 milligrams (mg), but the pharmacy technician only has the medicine available in grams. How many grams (g) will the pharmacy technician need to fill the order?

1 mg = 0.001 g

a. 20 g
b. 2 g
c. 0.2 g
d. 0.02 g

Answer 1

To convert milligrams to grams, you divide the number of milligrams by 1000.

Step-by-step explanation:

To convert milligrams (mg) to grams (g), you need to divide the number of milligrams by 1000. In this case, the pharmacist wrote a prescription for 200 mg, so to convert this to grams, you divide 200 by 1000: 200/1000 = 0.2 g. Therefore, the pharmacy technician will need 0.2 grams to fill the order.