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Pharmacy Technician Exam: Basic Pharmacy Math
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Pharmacy Technician Exam: Basic Pharmacy Math
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1. Which of the following ratio strength solutions is the most concentrated?
2. Reduce 21/51 to lowest terms.
3. You have an injectable drug with the concentration of 25 mg/2.5 mL 10 mL and are asked to prepare a syringe with a dose of 12 mg in it. What will the volume of your syringe be?
4. Drug X has a concentration of 200 mg/5 mL 360 mL. What is the total amount of active drug in this bottle?
5. Write 3/20 as a decimal.
6. You have a bottle of Ceclor® with the concentration of 125 mg/5 mL. How many milliliters are needed to give this patient an exact 200 mg dose?
7. Rx: Azithromycin 500 mg/5 mL 200 mL
Directions: 10 mL stat then 5 mL po bid × 20d
How much active drug is in this container?
8. What is the Arabic number for the following Roman numeral: CXXXIV
9. Drug X has a concentration of 125 mg/5 mL. How many milliliters are needed to give a 400 mg dose?
10. A clinical study of a new drug showed that the drug was effective in 586 of the 803 patients enrolled in the study. What is the decimal expression of the patients who benefited from the drug?
11. Rx: Drug D 325 mg/5 mL ______ mL
Directions: 580 mg po bid × 30d
What would the individual dose be?
12. Round 4.23891 to the nearest hundredth.
13. Express 25 thousandths in decimal form.
14. Convert 0.16 to a fraction.
15. Round 0.4912 to the nearest tenth.
16. Convert 5/8 to a decimal.
17. Ferrous sulfate elixir contains 220 mg of ferrous sulfate per 5 mL. How much ferrous sulfate is in 473 mL of elixir?
18. If a cough syrup contains 4 mg of chlorpheniramine in each 5 mL, how much chlorpheniramine (in milligrams) is contained in 240 mL of syrup?
19. Rx: Azithromycin 500 mg/5 mL 200 mL
Directions: 10 mL stat then 5 mL po bid × 20d
What does 200 mL mean in this problem?
20. How many milliliters should you give for the following directions: 5 mL po tid × 10d?
21. An oral antibiotic suspension makes 150 mL after reconstitution. Each dose is 5 mL. Each dose makes up what fractional part of the total?
22. How many capsules need to be dispensed for the following prescription order: amoxicillin 250 mg, qty: XXVI
23. What is the Arabic number for the following Roman numeral: LXI
24. How many tabs will be used for one dose of a medication with the following directions? Directions: iv tabs po bid × 10d
25. Reduce 36/27 to lowest terms.