During your journey, you develop an abscessed tooth and have to visit the dentist. You are prescribed an antibiotic with a dosage of 7.5 mg/kg every six hours. If you weigh 128 pounds and the antibiotic comes in 250 mg tablets, how many tablets should you take each day?

I should take 10.44 tablets in a day, approximately 10.5 tablets.

Step-by-step explanation:

In order to solve this problem we need to convert the weight from pounds to kilograms, to do that we need to divide it by 2.205.

Since I need to take 7.5 mg per kg of body weight, then in order to find the dosage we need to multiply the weight in kg by 7.5.

Since I need to take it every six hours and there are 24 hours in a day, we will have to take 4 dosages in a day, therefore we need:

The antibiotic comes in 250 mg in tablets, therefore the number of tablets is:

I should take 10.44 tablets in a day, approximately 10.5 tablets.

for ex: the reciprocal of 3/4 is 4/3. it is the opposite.

reciprocal definition:

a mathematical expression or function so related to another that their product is one; the quantity obtained by dividing the number one by a given quantity.

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