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A stock bottle of medication contains 500 mg of drug used in compounding other medications. You used 125 mg for one prescription and 62.5 mg for a second prescription, while the third prescription was for a child and only 25.25 mg were necessary.
a. What quantity medication had been used?
b. What quantity of the original medication is left?

Respuesta :

212.75 Mg were used in total, so that means that

 287.25 Mg are left
or, it may be 1712.25 Mg are left
 

The quantity of medication had been used will be [tex]212.75[/tex] mg  and the quantity of the original medication left will be [tex]287.25[/tex] mg .

What is quantity?

The quantity is a number or an amount of something.

We have,

Total medication [tex]=500[/tex] mg

Used for one prescription [tex]=125[/tex] mg

Used for second prescription [tex]=62.5[/tex] mg

Will be Used for third prescription [tex]=25.25[/tex] mg

So,

Now,

Total quantity of medication had been used [tex]=125+62.5+25.25=212.75[/tex] mg

And,

Now,

The quantity of the original medication left[tex]=500-212.75=287.25[/tex]

Hence, we can say that the quantity of medication had been used will be [tex]212.75[/tex] mg  and the quantity of the original medication left will be [tex]287.25[/tex] mg .

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