Carry out the necessary metric, apothecary, or household conversions to determine how many milliliters of cough syrup a nurse will give to a patient each day if the nurse is instructed to give the patient 2 teaspoons of cough syrup four times a day.
A. 30 ml
B. 50 ml
C. 40 ml
D. 20 ml
Answer: C
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