A patient A receives 3 times the amount of medicine as patient B. The two doses add to 200 milligrams. What amount of medicine does each patient receive?

Patient A receives 150 milligrams and Patient B receives 50 milligrams

Step-by-step explanation:

Patient A = 3x

Patient B = x

200 milligrams = 3x + x

200 milligrams = 4x

x = 50

Patient A = 3(50) = 150

Patient B = 50

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Let the medicine received by patient B be x.

According to the question patient A receives 3 times as much,

The total amount of medicine administered to the two patients equals to 200 milligrams.

We can write the relation as ,

Therefore,

29 is the correct answer

step-by-step explanation:

14

step-by-step explanation:

14 x 3 = 42