Health Professionals Use Math for Problem Solving
Powerful medicines are administered in small concentrations. Sometimes this is done to make the overall amount of solution the patient takes a more normal amount.
If a pharmacist needs to make 70 cc of a 0.01% solution, how many milligrams of medicine does she need?
Hints:
- Rewrite 0.01% as a fraction or decimal
- 1 cc of water has a mass of one gram
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