A thermometer is carried outside a house whose ambient temperature is 115 degrees Fahrenheit . After ten minutes the thermometer reads 67.49 degrees, and twenty-five minutes after this, reads 65.30 degrees. What is the outside temperature (which is assumed to be constant) ?

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2.) A thermometer is carried outside a house whose ambient temperature is 115 degrees Fahrenheit . After ten
minutes the thermometer reads 67.49 degrees, and twenty-five
minutes after this, reads 65.30 degrees. What is the outside
temperature (which is assumed to be constant) ? 

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