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A portion of waste water is made up to with oxygen-saturated dilution water. The diluted mixture has dissolved oxygen of at the start and after incubation for 5 days at 20 C. The BOD of the original waste water is calculated as (initial DO minus final DO) times the dilution factor. Give the BOD in to the nearest integer.

Numerical answer type, answer in mg/L, tolerance 0.5.

Answer: 95 mg/L

Dilution factor = . DO drop = mg/L. BOD mg/L, which is far above 17 ppm, so the waste water is heavily polluted.
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