Consider a 60 gallon tank of pure water. A mixture of water and salt comes in at 2 gallons per minute containing 1 pound of salt per gallon. then the tank contents come out at 3 gallons per minute obtain the amount of salt in the tank after 1 minute and in 30 minutes calculate the salt that is when there are 10 gallons of solution in the tank the maximum amount of salt that can be in the tank

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Consider a 60 gallon tank of pure water. A mixture of water and salt comes in at 2 gallons per minute containing 1 pound of salt per gallon. then the tank contents come out at 3 gallons per minute

obtain the amount of salt in the tank after 1 minute and in 30 minutes

calculate the salt that is when there are 10 gallons of solution in the tank

the maximum amount of salt that can be in the tank

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