A tank contains 40 lb of salt dissolved in 500 gallons of water. A brine solution is pumped into the tank at a rate of 5 gal/min; it mixes with the solution there, and then the mixture is pumped out at a rate of 5 gal/min. Determine  A(t),  the amount of salt in the tank at time t, if the concentration of salt in the inflow is variable and given by  cin(t) = 2 + sin(t/4) lb/gal. Without actually graphing, conjecture what the solution curve of the IVP should look like. Then use a graphing utility to plot the graph of the solution on the interval [0, 300].

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A tank contains 40 lb of salt dissolved in 500 gallons of water. A brine solution is pumped into the tank at a rate of 5 gal/min; it mixes with the solution there, and then the mixture is pumped out at a rate of 5 gal/min. Determine 

A(t),

 the amount of salt in the tank at time t, if the concentration of salt in the inflow is variable and given by 

cin(t) = 2 + sin(t/4) lb/gal.
Without actually graphing, conjecture what the solution curve of the IVP should look like. Then use a graphing utility to plot the graph of the solution on the interval [0, 300].
 
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