document.write( "Question 168099: cowling's rule is another method for determining the dosage of a drug to prescribe to a child. for this rule, the formula:\r
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\n" ); document.write( "Gives the child’s dosage d, where D is the adult dosage and a is the age of the child in years. If the adult dosage of a drug is 600 milligrams and a doctors uses this formula to determine that a child’s dosage is 200 milligrams, then how old is the child?\r
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I'm not sure how they wrote the formula - but when I looked it up it said \"fraction of the adult dose obtained by dividing the age of the child at the nearest birthday by 24\"\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "d=D*((a+1)/24) I think you were saying \r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "d/D will = age + 1 divided by 24\r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "so 200/600 = 1/3 \r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "so now we have 1/3 on one side and (age +1)/24 on the other side\r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "multiply both sides by 24 to give 24/3 = age = 8 I think \n" ); document.write( "
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