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A patient is prescribed 2 mg of nifedipine twice daily for 28 days. In your pharmacy, nifedipine is only available in 8 mg tablets, so you decide to crush the tablets and dilute them with lactose to prepare 50 mg powders containing 2 mg of nifedipine each. Each 8 mg tablet weighs 40 mg in total. How much lactose do you need to use to supply the powders required by the prescription? Please provide your answer in milligrams.
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