SOLUTION: MAT 145: Topics In Contemporary Math
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Professor Holz is prescribed a medicine he has to take twice per day (so he needs 14 pills per week.) However, t
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QUESTION 3
Professor Holz is prescribed a medicine he has to take twice per day (so he needs 14 pills per week.) However, the prescription comes in bottles of 60 pills. If he runs out of the pills and gets the prescription filled today, how many weeks will it be until the day he runs out and the prescription gets filled coincides again?
How many bottles of pills will he have gotten? Answer by Theo(13342) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! least common multiplier of 14 and 60 = 420.
420 / 60 = 7
420 / 7 = 30
you're looking at 7 bottles of 60 pills each and 30 weeks of 14 pills each.
that gets them back to where they started from.
it will be 30 weeks when the pills run out and the weeks run out at the same time.
on the first day of the next week, a new bottle will be required and a new week will start.
that would be monday in this example.
