PHARMACEUTICAL CALCULATIONS5. A physician offers a patient the option ofprescribing 30 scored ZOLOFT 100-mgtablets (for the patient to break in halfwith a dose of one-half tablet) or 60 tab-lets containing 50 mg of the drug. Calcu-late the cost differential and indicate themost economical option for the patient ifthe 100-mg tablets cost $192.76 per 100tablets and the 50-mg tablets cost$187.34 per 100 tablets.6 Calculate the daily drug cost differential

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