Chemistry, 20.01.2022 14:00, tatejordan02

A body of water is polluted with mercury. The lake has a volume of 200 million cubic meters and mercury is present in a concentration of 5 grams per million cubic meters. Health officials state that any level above 1 g per million cubic meters is considered unsafe. If water unpolluted by mercury flows into the lake at a rate of 0.5 million cubic meters per day, and uniformly mixed lake water flows out of the lake at the same rate, how long will it take for the lake to reach a mercury concentration that is considered safe

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