A patient needs to take 7 mL of a Biaxin oral suspension (clarithromycin). The d

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A patient needs to take 7 mL of a Biaxin oral suspension (clarithromycin). The doctor’s office’s measuring cups only come in 5 or 10 mL volumes. As opposed to giving the patient an inaccurate dosage, you decide to use the suspension’s density (125 mg/ 5 mL) to administer a specific mass of the drug. a. How many mg should you weigh into a measuring cup to give the same dosage?

I started off by converting 125 mg to g and I got 0.125g. Then I multiplied 0.125g/5ml by 7 ml and got 0.175g as my answer. I'm just not sure if I did right can you help?

Explanation / Answer

To administer 7 mL of suspension

we have 125 mg in 5 mL of suspension

So 7 mL will have = 7 x 125/5 = 175 mg

So you need to weight 175 mg of suspension drug. In all your answer is correct

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