If a prescription calls for 0.75mg of a medication and the pharmacy provides it in 0.25mg tablets, how many tablets are required?

To determine how many 0.25mg tablets are needed to fulfill a prescription for 0.75mg of medication, you can use division. Start by calculating how many times the dosage of a single tablet (0.25mg) fits into the required dosage (0.75mg).

You do this by dividing the total amount of medication needed by the amount in each tablet:

0.75mg ÷ 0.25mg = 3 tablets.

This result shows that you need a total of three 0.25mg tablets to reach the prescribed dosage of 0.75mg. Therefore, the correct amount of tablets needed is three, which confirms that the answer of two tablets is not accurate. The actual requirement is to take three tablets to meet the dosage prescribed.