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Questions about math for meds...

1. Do you enter the units? For example, if the answer were 21 drops/min would you enter in 21? Or 21 gtts/min? Hope that makes sense :)

2. Let's say that you're calculating dosage for a liquid medication. And the amount comes to 12.483 ml. Would you round up and answer 12.5? Is there any scenario where you'd answer 12.48?

Please post some hints about math for meds if you can. Thank you!

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Took the NCLEX yesterday...I only had one question but it told me not to enter the units and it also told me exactly where to round to (two decimals was what I got). Bet they are all pretty straightforward like that.

Hope that helps some.

Took the NCLEX yesterday...I only had one question but it told me not to enter the units and it also told me exactly where to round to (two decimals was what I got). Bet they are all pretty straightforward like that.

Hope that helps some.

i dont know what u mean by exactly where to round to. i had a hard time with those questions, i dont think i rounded the way the nclex wanted me to.. so how would the question be if it says to round to to the nearest tenth? would that be "round to the nearest tenth? or hundredth? .. is rounding to the nearest tenth answer 2.59=2.6 ? i really dont understand, i wish the answer of these would be in multiple choice, but its not.

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i dont know what u mean by exactly where to round to. i had a hard time with those questions, i dont think i rounded the way the nclex wanted me to.. so how would the question be if it says to round to to the nearest tenth? would that be "round to the nearest tenth? or hundredth? .. is rounding to the nearest tenth answer 2.59=2.6 ? i really dont understand, i wish the answer of these would be in multiple choice, but its not.

The tenths place is just after the decimal point. So you would be correct in entering 2.6 rather than 2.59 so just as an example let's say we have 0.5934 mls.

0.5934 would be rounded to...

0.6 = tenths place

0.59 = hundredths place

0.593 = thousandths place

The tenths place is just after the decimal point. So you would be correct in entering 2.6 rather than 2.59 so just as an example let's say we have 0.5934 mls.

0.5934 would be rounded to...

0.6 = tenths place

0.59 = hundredths place

0.593 = thousandths place

oh this was very helfpul.. i totally understand now... thank you , i know i messed this up on my nclex exam

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