SOLUTION: Suppose a patient weighing 150 pounds requires 144 milligrams of medicine. What is the weight of a patient who requires 174.72 milligrams of medicine?
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Question 1045272: Suppose a patient weighing 150 pounds requires 144 milligrams of medicine. What is the weight of a patient who requires 174.72 milligrams of medicine? Answer by Boreal(15235) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! 150 pounds/144 mg=x pounds/174.72 mg
Keep the units the same in the proportion, same in numerators, same in denominators.
Then cross-multiply
150*174.72=144x
x=150*174.72/144
=182 pounds.
This makes sense since the weight is slightly larger in pounds than mg of medicine.
