Basic Pharmacy Calculations

Grade 5β€’45 minutes

Learning Objective

I can use multiplication and division to solve simple pharmacy calculation problems.

Practice Questions

This lesson includes 7 practice questions to reinforce learning.

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1. Explain what a ratio is and give an example of how it is used in pharmacy, according to the video.

2. What does it mean for two ratios to be in proportion? Explain using an example different from the one in the video.

3. If a solution contains 2 grams of a drug in 50 mL of water, how many grams of the drug would be in 125 mL of the same solution? Show your work.

...and 4 more questions

Educational Video

Pharmacy Calculations: Ratios and Proportions - PTCB PTCE NAPLEX NCLEX Test Prep CPhT Pharmacy Tech

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