Question

The FDA recommends that women who are pregnant avoid eating more than three 6.00 oz servings of bluefish per month because of the relatively high mercury levels in that type of fish. If bluefish contains 0.323 ppm of mercury (that is, 0.323 oz of mercury per 1×106 oz of fish), how many ounces of mercury would a pregnant woman consume in a month if she ate the maximum recommended amount of bluefish?

Answer 1

Answer:

$5.814\times 10^{-6}$

Explanation:

The maximum recommended amount of the bluefish = three 6.00 oz servings in a moth.

It means, 18 oz of bluefish per month is maximum recommended.

Also, given that: bluefish contains 0.323 ppm of mercury which means that:

$1\times 10^6\ oz$ oz of fishes contains 0.323 oz of mercury

Thus,

1 oz of fish contains $\frac {0.323}{1\times 10^6}$ oz of mercury

Also,

18 oz of fish contains $\frac {0.323}{1\times 10^6}\times 18$ oz of mercury

Mercury levels in maximum recommended amount of bluefish = $5.814\times 10^{-6}$