<PRE><B>Question 263096</B>
A hospital recieved a shipment of 8 milligram doses of medicine. Each 8 milligram package was repacked into two smaller doses of unequal size and labled packet a and packet b. The hospital then used 17 doses of packet a and 14 doses of packet b in one week. The hospital used a total of 127 milligrams of medicine during that week. How many milligrams of the medicine are contained in each a packet and b packet?
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Let one dose be x
Other does will be 8-x     ---------y

17x+14(8-x)=127

17x+118-14x=127
3x=9
X=3
Y=5mg
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