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Hi everyone. I am a aspiring nurse and I have a pharmacology question. If a pt have 1 cup of milk, 2 cups of tea, 1/2 cup of gelatin, 1/2 cup of soup, and 1/4 quart of water. How many ounces did they get? I know 1oz=30ml and 1 cup=240 ml. I am confused on 1/2 and 1/4. Could you tell me how to add this up. I am getting ready to start nursing school and I want to understand everything.

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if 1 cup = 8 oz and 1 quart has 4 cups, then the rest should be simple...remember you are finding ounces, not milliliters.

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Milk = 240 cc

Tea = 480 cc ( 240 x 2)

Gelatin = 120 cc ( half of 240 cc)

Soup = 120 cc ( half of 240 cc)

Water = 60 cc ( 1/4 of 240 cc)

Total = 1020 cc

Hope this helps (and that I added right !!)

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Hi everyone. I am a aspiring nurse and I have a pharmacology question. If a pt have 1 cup of milk, 2 cups of tea, 1/2 cup of gelatin, 1/2 cup of soup, and 1/4 quart of water. How many ounces did they get? I know 1oz=30ml and 1 cup=240 ml. I am confused on 1/2 and 1/4. Could you tell me how to add this up. I am getting ready to start nursing school and I want to understand everything.

Milk = 240 cc

Tea = 480 cc ( 240 x 2)

Gelatin = 120 cc ( half of 240 cc)

Soup = 120 cc ( half of 240 cc)

Water = 60 cc ( 1/4 of 240 cc)

Total = 1020 cc

Hope this helps (and that I added right !!)

1. This is not a pharmacology question it is a math question.

2. If you know a cup is 240 ml, then what is difficult about figuring out what half of that is?

3. xtxrn - the question actually asks how many ounces - not how many cc (ie: ml). Although I realize that a true medical question would have asked how many mls they received.

4. xtxrn - I think your water calculation is incorrect.

5. OP - You need to think this out and come up with the correct answer. It really isn't hard.

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Yep- you're right....a quarter of a QUART is 240cc.... Thanks :) Headache, chemo-fog.... :)

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xtxrn- your math is wrong and so are your units, OP said the question is looking for ounces and that the pt consumed 1/4 QUART of water (not a cup) so your number should be 240cc of water (or 8oz). If you fix your math and then divide by 30, then you will have the correct answer. :) have to add a smiley so i don't sound snarky

Reread the question OP, it's not as hard as i think you are making it

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sorry for double post of same info...took too long to type i guess

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SO sorry.....I'm not used to ounces for anything medical. So, 5 cups or 40 ounces..... does that work??? Geez, I'm embarrassed. :crying2:

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I'm sorry I meant a cup of water. @nascar nurse. I did not come here to be lectured. I only came for help because this is a forum for nurses. If you did not want to respond you should have overlooked the question. I talked to a lot of nurses and they were relating questions to me on this same topic. Anyone can tell me the calculations with 1/4 cup od water. NO sarcasm please. If so please move on.

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I'm sorry I meant a cup of water. @nascar nurse. I did not come here to be lectured. I only came for help because this is a forum for nurses. If you did not want to respond you should have overlooked the question. I talked to a lot of nurses and they were relating questions to me on this same topic. Anyone can tell me the calculations with 1/4 cup od water. NO sarcasm please. If so please move on.

Not lecturing and was not sarcastic. It really is something that I am certain you can think about and figure out. I am trying to be encouraging and helping you to see that if you try you can do it. This IS the key to success as a nurse. I will be moving on now. Have a great day.

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Yep- you're right....a quarter of a QUART is 240cc.... Thanks :) Headache, chemo-fog.... :)

Chemo-fog....you're listed as only 26 yrs old. Hugs to you and I hope you are on the path to better health!

Oops, re-read - 26 years experience. Doesn't matter...hugs to you still

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Hi everyone. I am a aspiring nurse and I have a pharmacology question. If a pt have 1 cup of milk (8oz), 2 cups of tea (16oz), 1/2 cup of gelatin (4oz, as 1c=8oz, and 1/2 of 8 = 4), 1/2 cup of soup (4oz), and 1/4 (32oz in a quart, so this = 8oz)quart of water. How many ounces did they get? I know 1oz=30ml and 1 cup=240 ml. I am confused on 1/2 and 1/4. Could you tell me how to add this up. I am getting ready to start nursing school and I want to understand everything.

This is one of those questions that you have to be able to know which of the values given affect the answer and pay very close attn to the units. For instance in the question, there is no request for or mention of mL, so you don't even need to think about that unit. All you need to know is that 1c=8oz and 4c=1quart. The rest is simple from there, with basic fractions and addition. You can do it! Just make sure you're reading the question VERY carefully, with extra close attention to units. Break it down and work on filtering out extraneous words and figures so that you end up with a basic math problem. Good luck.

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