Your doctor prescribes you to take 400 milligrams of medicine every 8 hours. How many ounces of medicine do you take in a day?

1 Answer
Mar 13, 2018

#0.04233# ounces of medicine in a day.

Explanation:

As #400# milligrams of medicine is prescribed every #8# hours, but there are #24# hours in a day, one takes #3# prescriptions or

#400xx3=1200# milligrams of medicine

There are #1000# milligrams in every gram, hence it is equal to #1200/1000=1.2# grams.

Now each ounce is #28.35# grams, therefore each gram is #1/28.35# grams

and #1.2# gramss is #1.2/28.35# ounces i.e. #0.04233# ounces.