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A tank with a capacity of 500 gal originally contains 200 gal of water with 100 lb of salt in solution. Water containing a salt concentration of 1 lb/gal enters the tank at a rate of 3 gal/min, and the mixture is allowed to flow out of the tank at the rate of 2 gal/min.
(a) Find the amount of salt in the tank at any time prior to the instant that the tank begins to overflow.
(b) Find the amount of salt in the tank at the instant that the tank begins to overflow

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A tank with a capacity of 500 gal originally contains 200 gal of water with 100 lb of salt in solution. Water containing a salt concentration of 1 lb/gal enters the tank at a rate of 3 gal/min, and the mixture is allowed to flow out of the tank at the rate of 2 gal/min.
(a) Find the amount of salt in the tank at any time prior to the instant that the tank begins to overflow.
Let and be the total volume of solution and salt concentration in tank, respectively.
V0 = 200 gal is the ...

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