Your pediatrician has prescribed medicine for your child, telling you to give them 2,000 mg of the medicine per day. The drug is in liquid form and the label says that there are 0.19 g of medicine per milliliter (mL). Since you only have teaspoons available to measure with, you look up the volume conversion and find that there are 5.0 mL in one teaspoon. How many teaspoons of medicine should you give to your child each day?

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Your pediatrician has prescribed medicine for your child, telling you to give them 2,000 mg of the medicine per day. The drug is in liquid form and the label says that there are 0.19 g of medicine per milliliter (mL). Since you only have teaspoons available to measure with, you look up the volume conversion and find that there are 5.0 mL in one teaspoon. How many teaspoons of medicine should you give to your child each day?

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