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Given information

The volume of the tank is given to be 5000L and the brine contain 30g of salt per liter of water is pumped into a tank at the rate 25L/min.

Step-by-step explanation

Step 1.

Initial volume of the tank is 5000L and every minute increases by 25L.

Therefore, the capacity of tank at time  is .

Amount of salt added into tank every minute is  

Therefore, the amount of salt in the tank after minutes is  .

Also, it is known that concentration is the ratio of amount of salt to the volume of the tank.

Therefore,  .

 

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