Question

client receives 150 mg twice a day, medication is available at 30 mg per 1 ml, so how many teaspoons should the nurse instruct the client to take for each dose?

Answer 1

1 teaspoons

Explanation

to solve this we can use a rule of three

Step 1

a) let x represents the number of ml in 150 mg, so

$\begin{gathered} if \\ 30\text{ mg}\Rightarrow1\text{ ml} \\ 150\text{ mg}\Rightarrow x \\ \end{gathered}$

so, the proportion is

$\begin{gathered} \frac{1\text{ ml}}{30\text{ mg}}=\frac{x}{150\text{ mg}} \\ x=\frac{150\text{ml}}{30\text{mg}}=5\text{ } \\ x=5\text{ mg} \end{gathered}$

so, the number of mg is 5

Step 2

now, we know that

$1\text{ teaspoon=}5\text{ ml}$

hence, the number of teaspoons is 1

so, the answer is 1 teaspoons

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