Child Drug Dose Calculation

In this problem, we need to calculate a child's drug dosage based on their Body Surface Area, or B S A. Let's look at the given information.

We are given that the average adult dose is twenty-five milligrams. We also know the child's body surface area is zero point nine eight square meters.

To solve this, we use the standard Body Surface Area formula for pediatric dosing. This formula relates the child's dose to the adult dose using the ratio of the child's B S A to the average adult B S A.

Now, let's plug our known values into the equation. We substitute the child's B S A with zero point nine eight and the adult dose with twenty-five.