SOLUTION: A doctor prescribes 1.5g of a drug, daily for a patent. The pharmacist has only 750-mg tablets available. How many tablets will the patient take daily?

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Question 894594: A doctor prescribes 1.5g of a drug, daily for a patent. The pharmacist has only 750-mg tablets available. How many tablets will the patient take daily?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39630)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
That tablet is 0.75 grams of the drug.




The patient would be prescribed 2 each of the 750 mg tablet per day.

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