Doris has reconstituted a bottle of Cefprozil® Oral Suspension to fill a patient's prescription. The prescription calls for 400 mg Cefprozil® q12h for 7 days. Doris needs to know if the amount of reconstituted medication in the bottle will be enough to last the patient for 7 days. Calculate the total amount of medication in the bottle after this medication has been reconstituted: ________. 
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
1,875 mg
The label indicates that the reconstituted solution will be 75 mL containing 125 mg of Cefprozil® in every 5 mL. Set up a proportion to find the total amount of medication in the bottle:
x × 5 = 125 mg × 75
x = 1,875 mg
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