Question

131) The apothecary system of measurement has been in use since colonial days of dispense drugs. The unit of weight in this system, the grain, was originally the weight of a grain of wheat, an aspirin tablet contains 5 grains of aspirin. If ou take two aspirins for a headache, how many grams is tx xuthat? (One gram is equivalent to 15 grains.) a

Answer 1

1 aspirin contains = 5 grain therefore 2 aspirin contains = (2 times 5) grain = 10 grain And we know, 1 gm = 15 grain i.e. 1 grain = (1/15) gm therefore 10 grain = (1/15 times 10) gm = 0. 66667 gm almostequalto 0. 7 gm