A pharmacist is asked to weigh 50 mg of oxymorphone on a prescription balance having a

sensitivity requirement of 6 mg. How would you weigh this amount with an acceptable error in
weighing of 5% using lactose as the diluent?

A pharmacist is asked to weigh 140 mg of lidocaine powder on the standard balance. The
maximum percent error by law is 5% and the balance states the sensitivity requirement is 3 mg.
What is the minimum weighable quantity?

How much drug and diluent do you need to measure 12 mg of the drug on a scale that has a
sensitivity requirement of 6 mg and an acceptable error of 6%?

You are reviewing a prescription that asked to weigh 5 mg of hydromorphone hydrochloride.

The final mixture was 4500 mg containing 150mg of hydromorphone hydrochloride and 4350
mg of lactose. What is the maximum percent error of weighing assuming 120 mg as the least
weighable amount (LWA) and a sensitivity requirement (SR) of 3 mg. Round to the nearest
tenth.

What is the smallest quantity that can be weighed on a scale that has a sensitivity requirement of
5 mg and an acceptable error of 7%? Round to the nearest tenth.

A formula calls for 0.8 milliliter of a coloring solution. Using a 10-mL graduate calibrated from 2
to 10 milliliter units in 1-milliliter units, how could you obtain the desired quantity of the
coloring solution by the aliquot method? Use water as diluent.

Explain how you would use the aliquot method of weighing to obtain 15 mg of codeine sulfate if
you have a standard pharmacy balance. Use lactose as an inert diluent.

A pharmacist failed to place the balance in equilibrium before weighing three grains of codeine.
Later he discovered that the balance was out of equilibrium and that 20% error was incurred. If
the balance pan on which he placed the codeine was heavy, how many grains of codeine did he
actually weigh?

in preparing a certain ointment, a pharmacist used 28.35 grams of zinc oxide instead of the 31.1
grams called for. Calculate the percentage of error on the basis of the desired quantity. Round of
to the nearest hundredths.

In compounding a prescription, a pharmacist weighed 0.05 g of a substance on a balance

insensitive to quantities smaller than 0.004 g. What was the maximum potential error in terms
of percentage?