Understand Relationship: Understand the relationship between milligrams and centigrams.1 milligram (mg) is equal to 0.1 centigrams (cg), because the prefix "milli-" means one-thousandth and "centi-" means one-hundredth. Therefore, to convert milligrams to centigrams, we need to multiply by 10.
Convert Milligrams: Convert 480 milligrams to centigrams.Using the conversion factor from Step 1, we multiply 480mg by 10 to get the number of centigrams.480mg×10=4800cg
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