Order: Cleocin 150 mg IM every 12 h Available:Cleocin 300 mg per 2 mLHow many mL are needed for each dose?

To answer this question, we need to find the milliliters we need for 150mg of a product, and we can use the cross multiply to find that value. We can proceed as follows:
We have the following proportion:
[tex]\frac{300mg}{2ml}=\frac{150mg}{Xml}[/tex]And using cross multiply, we have:
And we have:
[tex]300mg*Xml=2mL*150mg[/tex]And now, to solve for X, we can divide both sides by 300mg as follows:
[tex]\begin{gathered} \frac{300mg*Xml}{300mg}=\frac{2ml*150mg}{300mg} \\ \\ Xml=\frac{2*150}{300}*ml*\frac{mg}{mg} \\ \\ Xml=\frac{300}{300}ml \\ \\ Xml=1ml \end{gathered}[/tex]That is, in summary, we need 1 milliliter of the medication to follow the dose.