3. george decides that he is going to make punch for the party instead. the recipe is as follows:
2 quarts of ginger ale
3 pints of orange juice
2 pints of pineapple juice
1.5 cups of lemon juice
3 ounces of lime juice
george wants to make a double recipe. how many fluid ounces of punch will there be after george is done making a double recipe?
4. george is going on a 7-day trip to the bahamas. george takes an antacid, he takes one tablespoon for times a day. if george brings a bottle containing 1.5 cups of his antacid, will he have enough to last the whole trip?
5. a baker has a bottle of vanilla extract containing 2.5 ounces. if the baker uses 1 teaspoon of extract for every cake he bakes, how many cakes can he bake before he runs out?
6. if the baker decides to make a batch of batter large enough to bake 6 cakes, how many tablespoons of extract will he need for the batch?
conversions between metric and household
1. dan must drink 2280 ml of water each day. how many liters of water will he drink? round your answer to the nearest tenth liter.
if you have available an 8-ounce cup, how many cups would dan need to drink to reach his fluid goals?
2. the doctor instructed bob to take 2 tablespoons of cough syrup every 12 hours. bob only has teaspoons available. how many teaspoons should he take for each dose?
what is this equivalent to in ml?
how many ml will he take over 5 days?
3. there are two bottles of milk of magnesia on the shelf at the pharmacy. one contains 9.5 oz and the other has 300 ml. which has the larger volume?
4. a patient has an order to take 45ml of an antacid every 4 hours as needed for heartburn. how many tablespoons does the patient need to take per dose?
if the patient takes the maximum ordered amount per day, how many ounces will he need to last 4 days?
5. your renal patient can have half of his 24-hour oral fluid intake with breakfast. his 24-hour oral fluid allowance is 18 ounces. how many ml of fluid can he have with breakfast?
6. the nurse knows that a 2-pound increase in the weight of a patient with edema means that the patient is retaining an additional liter of fluid. after receiving iv furosemide, the patient lost 11 lbs. in 24-hours. how many liters of fluid were mobilized out of the patient’s body?
7. the nurse is tracking a patient’s fluid intake and output. the patient drinks 25% of a bowl of broth. how many ml of intake will be recorded if the bowl held 10 ounces?
8. the doctor prescribes 10ml of betadine concentrate in 500 ml of warm water as a soak for a finger infection. using measuring devices commonly found in the home, how would you instruct the patient to prepare the solution?
9. the patient is to receive 20 ml of a suspension. how many tsp. would you tell the patient to take?
10. the label for a medication that comes as granules recommends mixing it with 120ml of water or juice. the nurse should advise the patient to mix the medicine with fluid ounce(s) or cup(s) of water or juice.