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GATE 2025 AR — Architecture – Question 16

Infrastructure, Services and Utilities · Water quality and testing · 1 mark · Multiple choice

Which water-quality relationship is correct?

  1. Total solids=suspended+dissolved+colloidal solids
  2. Total gases=BOD+COD+DO
  3. Total solids=suspended+dissolved solids
  4. Total gases=BOD+COD

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Correct answer: (C) Total solids=suspended+dissolved solids

Explanation

Analytical total solids are partitioned into suspended and dissolved solids, C. Colloids are not an additional third mass to add independently to those operational fractions. BOD and COD measure oxygen-demand equivalents, so they cannot be added to dissolved oxygen to define total gases.

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