by the editors of PureHealthMD Health | Healthcare System. NEXT PAGENEXT. Pharmacy compounding is an established tradition which allows a physician to prescribe a very specific medication, prepared by a pharmacist, for a patientâs individual needs.
To convert from centigrams (cg) to kilograms (kg), the decimal is move 5 spaces to the left, which is performed mathematically by dividing the number of centigrams by 10,000. â¦ For example: 1 cg = 0.00001 kg.
Practice Problem #2. Convert 5.0 kg to cg. In this problem, we'll be converting from kg (kilograms, or a thousand grams) to mg (milligrams, or thousandth of a gram). Before beginning the dimensional analysis, it's helpful to consider what the relative sizes of the units mean. We'll be moving from a relatively large unit of mass to much smaller units.