SOLUTION: Write an algebraic equation for the following problem and then solve it.
Princess Margaret hospital received a shipment of 13-milligram doses of a medicine. Each 13-milli
Question 1179219: Write an algebraic equation for the following problem and then solve it.
Princess Margaret hospital received a shipment of 13-milligram doses of a medicine. Each 13-milligram package was repacked into two smaller doses of unequal size and labeled packet A and packet B. The hospital then used 19 doses of packet A and 17 doses of packet B in one week. The hospital used a total of 243 milligrams of the medicine during that week.
How many milligrams of the medicine are contained in each A packet? In each B packet? Answer by MathLover1(20849) (Show Source):
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Princess Margaret hospital received a shipment of -milligram doses of a medicine.
Each -milligram package was repacked into two smaller doses of unequal size and labeled packet and packet.
............eq.1
The hospital then used doses of packet and doses of packet in one week. The hospital used a total of milligrams of the medicine during that week.
.............eq.2,..substitute from eq.1 ............eq.1
in each packet is milligrams of the medicine
in each packet is milligrams of the medicine
