(3) Volume from percent and drug amount
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3.1.1.1) Percent from weight and volume Easy 1
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How many milliliters of an aromatic mouth wash can you prepare with 3300 milligrams of drug so that the strength becomes 1.65% w/v?
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lb equals 200 mL kg
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Percentage (w/v) means number of grams of drug present per 100 mL of the solution. Here, the strength is 1.65 %, which means, there is 1.65 g of drug dissolved per 100 mL of an aromatic mouth wash. We need to determine the volume (in mL) of an aromatic mouth wash which will contain 3300 mg (equals to `3300 mg × (1g)/(1000mg) = 3.3 g`) of the drug.
`∴ (100 \quad mL)/(1.65 \quad g) = x/(3.3 \quad g) ⇒ x = 200 \quad mL`
∴ The volume will be 200 mL (Ans).