Consider the two tank apparatus shown in the figure. Each tank has capacity liters and initially contains liters of fresh water. At time , the well-stirred mixing process begins. Suppose that the concentration of brine flowing into Tank 1 via the top tube is kilograms per liter, and that the flow rates are liters per minute, and liters per minute.

(a) Determine the volume of solution in each tank as a function of time, , in minutes.
liters
liters

(b) Determine the time interval of interest. (The process stops when a tank is full or empty.)
Stopping time is minutes.

(c) Let and denote the amounts of salt (in kilograms) in the tanks at time (in minutes). Derive the initial value problem with and as dependent variables describing the mixing process.

Enter as Q1(t) and as Q2(t).

kg / min

kg / min

with kg and kg.