A patient needs 0.024grams of a sulfa drug. There are 8-mg tablets in stock. how many tablet should be given?,

0.024 grams can be multiplied by 1000 to yield the number of milligrams, which in this case comes out to 24 milligrams. We then know that we are provided with 8 milligram tablets, so we divide 24 by 8 to yield an output of 3. Therefore, the patient should be given 3 of the 8-mg tablets in order to ensure that the proper dosage is received.