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Hey there, in this question we have a unit conversion problem where we are trying to convert from the weight of the child in pounds to the volume of medication that we're supposed to give in milliliters.
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Well we are given some equalities here.
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We are told that there's 125 .0 milligrams of the amoxicillin, i'm just going to call it amox, in every 5 .00 milliliters.
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We're also told that the dosage is 15 milligrams per kilogram for each dose, so when they're 12 hours apart, so 15 .0 milligrams of the amoxicillin for every kilogram of body weight.
01:04
All right, so we have that information.
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Well this gives us a way to convert, our first one would allow us to convert from milligrams to milliliters because we see that we have both milligrams and milliliters there.
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Our other one here will allow us to convert from kilograms of body weight to milligrams of medication, so the only thing we need is a conversion from pounds to kilograms.
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Well one such conversion tells us that one pound is equal to 0 .4536 kilograms.
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Okay, so we have a plan and we have the required equalities to use as conversion factors to set this up via dimensional analysis and solve for our answer...