Test Bank for Brown and Mulholland’s Drug Calculations: Ratio and Proportion Problems for Clinical Practice 11th Edition by Ann Tritak, Margaret Daingerfield

Test Bank for
Brown and Mulholland’s Drug Calculations: Ratio
and Proportion Problems for Clinical Practice


11th Edition
by
Ann Tritak, Margaret Daingerfield

,Chapter 01: General Mathematics
Tritak: Brown and Mulholland’s Drug Calculations: Ratio and Proportion Problems
for Clinical Practice, 11th Edition


ESSAY

Directions: Solve the following problems.

1. Add and reduce to lowest terms:

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2. Add:

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3. Multiply and reduce to lowest terms:

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4. Multiply and reduce to lowest terms:

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5. Divide and reduce to lowest terms:

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6. Divide and reduce to lowest terms:

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, 7. Which is greater, ?

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8. Which is smaller,

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9. Change to a decimal:

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0.125

10. Change to a fraction: 0.008

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11. Which is smaller, 0.125 or 0.25?

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0.125

12. Which is greater, 0.25 or 0.05?

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0.25

13. Round to the nearest tenth: 3.124

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3.1

14. Round to the nearest hundredth: 0.42877

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0.43

15. Round to the nearest whole number: 5.742

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6

, 16. Round to the nearest ten thousandth: 0.576391

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0.5764

17. Divide 7.35 by 0.25.

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29.4

18. Multiply 4.25 by 0.2.

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0.85

19. Find 5% of 75.

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0.05  75 = 3.75 (10% of 75 is 7.5; 5% would be one half of that)

20. Find 55% of 120.

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0.55  120 = 66 (a little more than one half of 120)

21. Write as a percentage and as a decimal.

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10%, 0.1

22. Write 0.05 as a fraction and as a percentage.

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23. Write 85% as a fraction and as a decimal.

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24. Change 1 to an improper fraction.

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