Question

Young's rule find dosage for child. Adult dosage is 75mg. And the age of the child is 12. Calcuate child dosage in my.C=ad________ (a+12)

Answer 1

Given:

The adult dosage is 75mg and the age of the child is 12.

The formula to find the child's dosage is

$C=\frac{ad}{a+12}$

where a is the child's age, d is the usual adult's dosage and C is the child's dosage.

Required:

We need to find the child's dosage.

Explanation:

Consider the formula to find the child's dosage.

$C=\frac{ad}{a+12}$

Substitute a =12 and d =75 in the formula.

$C=\frac{12\times75}{12+12}$

$C=\frac{900}{24}=37.5\text{ mg.}$

Final answer:

The child's dosage is 37.5mg.