physican has ordered 37.5 mg of a paticular drug over 15 minutes. If the drug was avaialbe as a 2.5 mg/mL of solution, how many mL would you need to give every 15 seconds?

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A physican has ordered 37.5 mg of a paticular drug over 15 minutes. If the drug was avaialbe as a 2.5 mg/mL of solution, how many mL would you need to give every 15 seconds?

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A physician has ordered 37.5 mg drug over 15 min. that is over 900 sec. From that we can calculate for 1 sec and then we have to calculate for amount of drug for 15 sec 

After that from given data we get the quantity of solution in (mL ) for every 15 sec. All the detailed explanation is given in a attached image.

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