A patient is required to take an IV drug for cancer treatment. The required dosage is5.0 mg drug per Ib patient body weight every day. Each of the bags of thedrug contains 250 mg drug. If you are treating a 150 Ib patient , how manybags of the drug are needed each day?STARTING AMOUNTADD FACTORANSWERRESET*( )2508.37507.5 x 10350.00.3312500.123.05.015030.00.0200.6010.0Ib patientmg drugbagsmg drug/lb patientmg drug/bag Question 15 of 20A tank with 43.2 kg of water is leaking at a rate of 0.0135 kg/s . How manyhours will it take until the tank is completely empty?STARTING AMOUNTADD FACTORANSWERRESET*( )36000.5830.88913.20 × 1030.00110000.01356043.253.3kgminkg/shr

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A patient is required to take an IV drug for cancer treatment. The required dosage is 5.0 mg drug per Ib patient body weight every day. Each of the bags of the drug contains 250 mg drug . If you are treating a 150 lb patient , how many bags of the drug are needed each day?

A patient is required to take an IV drug for cancer treatment. The required dosage is 5.0 mg drug per Ib patient body weight every day. Each of the bags of the drug contains 250 mg drug . If you are treating a 150 lb patient , how many bags of the drug are needed each day?

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A patient is required to take an IV drug for cancer treatment. The required dosage is
5.0 mg drug per Ib patient body weight every day. Each of the bags of the
drug contains 250 mg drug. If you are treating a 150 Ib patient , how many
bags of the drug are needed each day?
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ADD FACTOR
ANSWER
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250
8.3
750
7.5 x 103
50.0
0.33
1250
0.12
3.0
5.0
150
30.0
0.020
0.60
10.0
Ib patient
mg drug
bags
mg drug/lb patient
mg drug/bag

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