Exam 3: Decimals

A doctor orders 0.5 gram of a medication for a patient. The pharmacy has scored tablets on hand and each one contains 0.2 gram of medication. How many tablets will be required for one dose of medication?

Full-time paramedics are paid for a 40-hour workweek or 2090 hours per year. The average salary for a paramedic in a certain town is $49,460. Find the hourly wage for these paramedics.

Ramon, a high school football player, gained 158 yards on 20 carries in a high school football game. Find the average number of yards gained per carry. Round to the nearest hundredth.

A certain pain medication is in tablet form and contains 0.20 gram of medication per tablet. If the doctor has ordered a patient to have 0.80 gram of pain medication, how many tablets should a nurse give the patient?

Divide:

Nutritionists recommend that women eat about 29 grams of fiber per day. If Sheila eats one medium pear with 5.4 grams of fiber, one oat bran muffin with 5.2 grams of fiber, and one cup of baked beans with 10.4 grams of fiber, how many additional grams of fiber should she consume today in order to meet the nutritionists' recommendation?

Grace Herrera owned 415.137 shares of a mutual fund on January 1. On December 31 of the same year, she had 510.097 shares. What was the increase in the number of shares Grace owned during that year?

Multiply: $4.17$ \times 3.6

Convert the fraction to a decimal. Round to the nearest thousandth. $\frac { 1 } { 6 }$

Add: 9.821 + 4.28 + 52.9163

Add: $9.213$ + 7.3

You had a balance of $696.81 in your checking account. You then wrote checks for $54.61, $49.59, and $482.91. a. Find the total amount of the checks written. b. Find the new balance in your checking account.

Write 0.29 as a fraction.

Divide: $89.06 \div 10$

Name the place value of the digit 2 in this number: 83.843286

Write 0.343 as a fraction.

Convert the decimal to a fraction. $0.81$

A local family medical clinic offers pediatric flu vaccinations to its patients 6 months old and older. The clinic pays a federal excise tax of $0.73 per vaccination. (Source: CDC Vaccine Price List) Find the total tax if 192 vaccines were given this month.

Leonard can run the 50-meter sprint in 7.3935 seconds. To the nearest tenth of a second, what is Leonard's 50-meter sprint time?

Mariel is diabetic and uses U-100 syringes to administer insulin daily. Each unit of insulin on the syringe is equal to 0.03 milliliter of insulin. If she averages 48 units of insulin per day, how many milliliters of insulin does she use in a week?