Question

A strip of medicine tablets has 8 tablets. Hospital orders 890 such strips every day. How many tablets does the hospital order in a week?

Answer 1

Hint: In this question, we first need to find the number of tablets that the hospital gets everyday by multiplying the number of strips hospital orders everyday with the number of tablets each strip contains. Then we need to find the tablets ordered in a week by multiplying the number of tablets it gets everyday with 7 to get the result.

Complete step by step answer:
Now, we first need to find the number of tablets ordered in a single day
Here, given that each strip of tablets has 8 tablets
Also given that the hospital orders 890 such strips everyday
Now, on multiplying the number of tablets of tablets in each strip with the number of strips ordered in a single day we get,
\[\Rightarrow 8\times 890\]
Now, on further simplifying it we get,
\[\Rightarrow 7120\]
Thus, the hospital orders a total of 7120 tablets everyday
Now, we need to find the number of tablets ordered by the hospital in a week
As we already know that in a week there are 7 days
Now, to get the number of tablets ordered in a week we need to multiply the number of tablets ordered everyday with 7
\[\Rightarrow 7120\times 7\]
Now, on further simplification we get,
\[\Rightarrow 49840\]
Hence, the hospital orders a total of 49840 tablets in a week

Note:
Instead of finding the number of tablets ordered in a day and then finding the number of tablets ordered in a week we can also solve it by finding the number of strips ordered in a week and then multiplying it with the number of tablets each strip has.
It is important to note that after finding the number of tablets that are ordered in a day we need to further multiply with 7 to get the tablets ordered in a week. It is also to be noted that if we multiply it with any number other than 7 then the result will be incorrect.