You need to prepare a 10mg dose of oxycodone at a concentration of 1 mg/mL using water for injections. You have a vial in stock which contains 10 mg of oxycodone powder. The displacement volume of oxycodone is 0.10 mL/5 mg. How many millilitres of water for injections is required to prepare this injection?

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11) You need to prepare a 10mg dose of oxycodone at a concentration of 1 mg/mL
using water for injections. You have a vial in stock which contains 10 mg of
oxycodone powder. The displacement volume of oxycodone is 0.10 mL/5 mg.
How many millilitres of water for injections is required to prepare this
injection?
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