Question

Your doctor prescribes you to take 400 milligrams of medicine every 8 hours. How many ounces of medicine do you take in a day?

Answer 1

`0.04233` ounces of medicine in a day.

Explanation:

As `400` milligrams of medicine is prescribed every `8` hours, but there are `24` hours in a day, one takes `3` prescriptions or

`400xx3=1200` milligrams of medicine

There are `1000` milligrams in every gram, hence it is equal to `1200/1000=1.2` grams.

Now each ounce is `28.35` grams, therefore each gram is `1/28.35` grams

and `1.2` gramss is `1.2/28.35` ounces i.e. `0.04233` ounces.