A patient weighs 14 kg and requires drug A at a dose of 5 mg/kg per day. What is the total daily dose for this patient?
2 Answers
Explanation:
First off is the cancellation of dimensions
For simplicity you can split 14 up and distribute
Explanation:
Use the units of measurement to guide as to how to do the calculation.
You need to end up with just
We are given
If we do this:
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Doing the same thing with the numbers:
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A quick way of calculating