The doctor orders 1 gram of an oral antibiotic to be given prior to a procedure. the office carries 250mg tablets. how many would you administer?

We know that 1g=1000 mg thus
250 g=250/1000=1/4 g
hence the number of drugs to administer given that the doctor instructed for 1 g antibiotics will be:
(amount ordered)/(the amount in 1 tablet)
1/(1/4)
=4 tablets

 

Since the doctor requires 1 gram of the oral antibiotic and the tablets are 250mg each, we would need to administer 1 gram = 1000 mg / 250 mg/tablet = 4 total tablets. This would provide the necessary dose of the medication to the patient which is needed in order to start the procedure.

Something that is true about that is that it has numbers