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A good doctor recommends that a person who weighs 65 pounds be given 200
milligrams of medicine. If the dosage were proportional to a person's weight, how
many milligrams of medicine would the doctor recommend for a person who
weighs 96 pounds?

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Answer:

  295 mg

Step-by-step explanation:

The proportion can be written ...

  dose/(96 lb) = (200 mg)/(65 lb)

  dose = (96/65)(200 mg) ≈ 295.4 mg . . . . . multiply by 96 lb, cancel lb units

The doctor might recommend 295 mg for a 96-pound patient.

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