question the main ingredient in a certain prescription drug capsule costs $500.00 per kilogram. if each capsule contains 600 milligrams of the ingredient, what is the cost of the ingredient in a capsule? (1 kilogram
As there is 1000 milligrams in a kilogram we have to divide 1000 but 600 (this is because the question is asking us to find out how much 1 capsule would cost and there is 600 milligrams in 1 capsule)
The answer we get from that will be [tex]1.666...[/tex] (recurring).
To find the cost we have to get 1.666... and divide it by 500, this will help us find how much it would cost for one capsule
500 ÷ 1.666... (recurring) = 300
METHOD 2:
Another way of doing it is by finding 100 milligrams then multiplying it by 6.
To find the cost of 100 milligrams we simply have to divide 500 by 10. This because 1000 ÷ 100 = 10