Passage III
A pesticide applied one time to orchards located near Site 1 (see Figure 1) a t the end of January was detected shortly afterward in the waters of an adjacent river system and bay. Figure 2 shows the data collected daily in February at Site 1: the pesticide concentration in the river water, in nanograms per liter (ng/L); the inches of rain that fell in the area during several storms; and the river discharge (in ft3/ sec). Discharge is the volume of water passing a given point in a given amount of time. Figure 3 shows pesticide concentrations for February 4 through February 25 at the 3 sites shown in Figure 1.
16. According to Figure 2, the total measured rainfall at Site 1 in February was most likely closest to which of the following?
Your Answer is
Correct Answer is J
Explanation
Just add up all the rainfall values in figure 2. 0.5+0.4+1.0+1.1+1.0+0.9=4.9, 5 inches of option J is the closest