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Given information

Here we have room temperature  

The initial temperature of the coffee is  

We have to solve the differential equation to find an expression for the temperature of the coffee at the time

Step-by-step explanation

Step 1.
By the law of cooling we have,
The rate of change of temperature  is proportional to  where is room temperature.
Then differential equation becomes where is time.
Here  

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