Mastering Chemistry with Pearson eText - Standalone Access Card - for Basic Chemistry (5th Edition)
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Chapter 2.6, Problem 2.68QAP
Use metric conversion factors to solve each of the following problems:
- The Daily Value (DV) for phosphorus is 800 mg. How many grams of phosphorus are recommended?
- A glass of orange juice contains 3.2 dL of juice. How many milliliters of orange juice are in the glass?
- A package of chocolate instant pudding contains 2840 mg of sodium. How many grams of sodium are in the pudding?
- A park has an area of
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Using conversion factors, solve the following clinical problems.
(a) The physician has ordered 2.5 g of tetracycline to be given every 4 hours to a patient. If your stock on hand is 500.0 mg tablets, how many will you need for 1 day's treatment? (b) An intramuscular medication is given at 4.60 mg/kg of body weight. If you give 405 mg of medication to a patient, what is the patient's weight in pounds? (c) A physician has ordered 305 mg of atropine, intramuscularly. If atropine were available as 0.50 g/mL of solution, how many milliliters would you need to give?
Solve each of the following problems using one or more conversion factors:
A container holds 0.750 qt of liquid. How many milliliters of lemonade will it hold?
In England, a person is weighed in stones. If one stone has a weight of 14.0 lb, what is the mass, in kilograms, of a person who weighs 11.8 stones?
The femur, or thighbone, is the longest bone in the body. In a 6-ft-tall person, the femur is 19.5 in. long. What is the length of that femur in millimeters?
An over-the-counter medication has 325 mg of its active ingredient per tablet. A lab has 0.5 kilograms of the active ingredient. Each bottle of medication has 48 tablets. How many full bottles of medication can the lab make?
Conversion factors:
(1000 mg = 1 g)
(1000 g = 1 kg)
(1 tablet = 325 mg)
(1 bottle = 48 tablets)
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1538 full bottles of medicine
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Mastering Chemistry with Pearson eText - Standalone Access Card - for Basic Chemistry (5th Edition)
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