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You have just purchased a 500-mL bottle of a decongestant medication. The doctor prescribed 2 teaspoons 4 times a day for 10 days. Have you purchased enough medication? (1 teaspoon (tsp) = 5ml)

          You have just purchased a 500-mL bottle of a decongestant medication. The doctor prescribed 2 teaspoons 4 times a day for 10 days. Have you purchased enough medication? (1 teaspoon (tsp) = 5ml)
        

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You have just purchased a 500-mL bottle of a decongestant medication. The doctor prescribed 2 teaspoons 4 times a day for 10 days. Have you purchased enough medication? (1 teaspoon (tsp) = 5ml)
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00:01 Hi, so to solve for this, we're going to use dimensional analysis.
00:06 The first question is the amount of the medicine that the patient will need to take in terms of teaspoons.
00:15 So just the right number of teaspoons per dose.
00:27 If the patient needs to take 250 mg and then the available suspended medicine is 125 mg for every 5 ml.
00:40 So we'll write ml in the numerator.
00:43 Then we'll convert ml to teaspoon.
00:45 This is the conversion factor.
00:47 We'll write 1 teaspoon in the numerator and 4 .93 ml in the denominator.
00:53 So 1 teaspoon is equivalent to 4 .93 ml.
00:56 Now we could cancel.
00:59 Oh, sorry, i forgot to write here.
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