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Exercise 106

Avg difficulty 2.5

Suppose the tanks are as in an example in the source text except that clean water flows in at a rate of ss liters per second into tank 1, and brine flows out of tank 2 and into the sewer also at a rate of ss liters per second. The rate of flow from tank 1 into tank 2 is still rr, but the rate of flow from tank 2 back into tank 1 is r−sr-s (assume r>sr > s).

  1. Draw the picture.
  2. Set up the system of equations.
  3. Intuitively, what happens as tt goes to infinity, explain.

Lebl, Notes on Diffy Qs, §3.1 Introduction to systems of ODEs, exercise 106

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