Pharmacy Math Practice Questions and
Answers (100% Pass)
A script calls for 25 Grams of Hydrocortisone Cream 15%. Your Pharmacy
stocks both 5% and 20% formulations. How much of the 20% will you use
in this order? - Answer✔️✔️-Answer: 16.75 Grams of the 20%.
You have been asked by the Pharmacist to prepare 3 liters of a 30%
strength solution. Your pharmacy stocks the active ingredient in 8 ounce
bottles of 70% strength. How many bottles of the active ingredient will you
need to open to complete this request? - Answer✔️✔️-Answer: 6 Bottles.
How many milliliters of 50% Dextrose solution and how many millilitera of
5% Dextrose solution are required to prepare 4500ml of a 10% Dextrose
solution? - Answer✔️✔️-Answer: 500 mLs (of the 50%), 4000 mLs (of the 5%
)
Find out the Child Dose for an 11 year old girl / 70 Lbs and the Adult does
is 500mg. (Hint: Use Young's Rule.) - Answer✔️✔️-Answer: 240 mg.
If Fifty tabs of Clarithromycin 500mg costs $25.00, How much would Ten
tabs of Clarithromycin 500mg cost? - Answer✔️✔️-Answer: $5.00
You are compounding a batch that requires 227 gm of drug F, which costs
your pharmacy $94.00 per pound. How much does this ingredient cost the
pharmacy for this batch? - Answer✔️✔️-Answer: $47.00
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