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The adult daily dosage for a certain medicine is 260 mg (milligrams) for every 40 pounds of body weight.

a. At this rate, find the daily dose for a man who weighs 195 pounds.
- The daily dose for a man who weighs 195 pounds is ______ mg. (Round to the nearest tenth as needed.)

b. If the man is to receive 600 mg of this medicine every 8 hours, is he receiving the proper dosage?

Answer :

a) Daily dose for a man who weighs 195 pounds is 30 mg.

b)Here 422.5 mg is less than 600mg. Then, He doesn't receive proper dosage.

What is proportional ?

Any relationship that always has the same ratio is referred to be proportionality. For instance, the average number of apples per tree determines the proportionality between the quantity of apples in a crop and the number of trees in the orchard.

Here , The adult daily dosage for a certain medicine is 260 mg

=> [tex]\frac{40}{260} = \frac{195}{x}[/tex]

=> x = [tex]\frac{260*195}{40}[/tex]

=> x =1267.5 mg.

a) Daily dose for a man who weighs 195 pounds is 30 mg.

b) Here for 24 hours = 1267.5 then,

=> 8 hours = x

=> x = [tex]\frac{1267.5*8}{24}[/tex]

=> x = 422.5 mg.

Here 422.5 mg is less than 600mg. Then, He does'nt receive proper dosage.

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