I used to think teachers told stories, especially math teachers - big whoppers - about how the "skills" they were teaching you would come in handy later in life. (Sorry, Les.) In particular, mathematical word problems were the bane of my teenage years. So, consider the word problem I stumbled upon in real life yesterday:
It is 6:45 PM. 9-month-old crying baby has an ear infection. One of two bottles of 35-dollar refridgerated medicine is open on the counter. It says to give the baby 4 ccs of amoxycilin twice daily for 10 days. The 1 accompanying syringe so thoughtfully included at the pharmeceutical counter 7.2 miles away measeures up to 1 tsp. and/or 5 mL. As the crying reaches fever pitch, determine how to dispense the liquid medicine accordingly.
A real-life word problem if I ever saw one - and with just as clear-cut an answer.
Being a GenXer, I decided to use my phone-a-friend option; twice.
So, I'm going to help you cheat a little bit (this is just like high school, Cindy H.), and provide you with the answer key, should you ever run across this problem on a timed test like I did.
1 cc = 1 mL
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I thought so, but couldnt' say for certain since it has been 20+ years since I had to dispense that kind of medicine and then we got to do it with a dropper in the bottle which was appropriately marked. I guess they think GenXers are smarter than we were and can do the math. Thanks for letting me know for sure that my brain still fucntions, albeit slower and with less conviction on math story problems!
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