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6) A patient is prescribed a new drug that needs to be infused intravenously. The
drug is available as a 20mg/mL solution and is run at a flow rate of 300mg/hour.
Assuming that there are 20 drops in each mL, what is the flow rate in drops per
minute of the infusion?
unit- drops/min
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