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Consider two brine tanks connected as shown in the figure.
Pure water flows into the top of tank 1 at a rate of
. The brine solution is pumped
from tank 1 into tank 2 at a rate of ,
and from tank 2 into tank 1 at a rate of .
A brine solution flows out the bottom of tank 2 at a rate of
. Suppose there are
of brine in tank 1 and of brine in tank 2.
Let be the amount of salt, in kilograms, in tank 1 after
minutes, and the amount of salt, in kilograms, in tank 2 after
minutes.
Assume that each tank is mixed perfectly.
Set up a system of first-order differential equations that models this
situation.
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