A typical aspirin has a mass of 500 mg. How do you convert this quantity to grams?

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Shwetank Mauria
Nov 25, 2016

#500# milligram make #1/2# grams.

Explanation:

The word 'milli' in milligram stands for one-thousandth and hence one milligram is #1/1000# of gram.

Hence there are #1000# milligram in a gram and

#500# milligram make #500/1000=1/2# grams.

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