2012MCMA题.doc

The Leaves of a Tree Nowadays the heavy metal pollution is so common that people pay more and more attention to it. The aim of this paper is to calculate the maximum of methylmercury in human body during their lifetime and the maximum number of fish the average adult can safely eat per month. From City Officials research[1], we get information that the mean value of methylmercury in bass samples of the Neversink Reservoir is 1300 ug/kg and the average weight of bass people consume per month is 0.7 kg. According to the different consuming time in every month, we construct a discrete dynamical system model for the amount of methylmercury that will be bioaccumulated in the average adult body. In ideal conditions, we assume people consume bass at fixed term per month. Based on it, we construct fixed-ingestion model and we reach the conclusion that the maximum amount of methylmercury the average adult human will bioaccumulate in their lifetime is 3505 ug. As methylmercury ingested is not only coming from bass but also from other food, hence, we make further revise to our model so that the model is closer to the actual situation. As a result, we figure out the maximum amount of methylmercury the average adult human will bioaccumulate in their lifetime is 3679 ug. As a matter of fact, although we assume people consume one fish per month, the consuming time has great randomness. Taking the randomness into consideration, we construct a random-ingestion model at the basis of the first model. Through computer simulations, we obtain the maximum of methylmercury in human body is 4261 ug. We also calculate the maximum amount is 4420 ug after random-ingestion model is revised. As it is known to us, different countries and districts have different criterions for mercury toxicity. In our case, we adopt LD50 as the toxic criterions(LD50 is the dosage at which 50% of the humans exposed to a particular chemical will die. The LD50 for methylmercury is 50 mg/kg.). We speculate mercury to