Large doses of vitamin C are supposed to cure the common cold. One commercial over-the-counter product consists of 500.0-mg tablets that are 20.0% by weight vitamin C. How many tablets should one take for a 0.92 g dose of vitamin C? Assume that the tablets can be accurately divided. Therefore express your answer to the correct number of significant figures.

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Maximillian Fuentes

26 July, 22:11

Large doses of vitamin C are supposed to cure the common cold. One commercial over-the-counter product consists of 500.0-mg tablets that are 20.0% by weight vitamin C. How many tablets should one take for a 0.92 g dose of vitamin C? Assume that the tablets can be accurately divided. Therefore express your answer to the correct number of significant figures.

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Braylon · Answer 1

500 mg is 0.5 g.

So, you can write the problem like this:

0.5t = 0.92 Where t is the number of tablets.

solve for t by dividing 0.92 by 0.5

0.92 / 0.5 = 1.84 tablets.